Investor-State Law Guide

Following a Legal Instrument

You can simply and effectively stay up to date with newly published, relevant analysis related to a legal instrument of interest by following the instrument within the Article Citator tool. Following a legal instrument, or a particular provision within that instrument, will allow you to receive in-app notifications and email notifications when investment treaty decisions and awards have referred to the instrument or provision in question. 

There are two types of instrument references: all references (any reference to the legal instrument, whether it to be the instrument as a whole or specific provision within the instrument) and specific references (a reference to a specific provision within the legal instrument).

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Following a legal instrument

From within the Article Citator tool, you can follow a legal instrument to get notified when newly published analysis of an investment treaty decision or award contains a reference to the instrument. 

When following a legal instrument in this way, you will receive notifications for all references to the legal instrument, including references to the instrument as a whole and to specific provisions within the legal instrument. 

To follow a legal instrument:

  • From the Article Citator page, scroll to the legal instrument you would like to follow
  • Open the Actions menu at the top right of the legal instrument card

Actions Menu

  • Click Follow topic

Actions menu dropdown

The legal instrument has now been added to your followed topics. 

Following a specific provision within a legal instrument

From within the Article Citator tool, you can follow a specific provision within a legal instrument to get notified when newly published analysis of an investment treaty decision or award contains a reference to a selected provision within the legal instrument.

To follow a specific provision within a legal instrument:

  • From the Article Citator page, scroll to the legal instrument you would like to follow
  • Select the ‘+’ icon to expand the legal instrument card
  • By default, below the instrument details you will see a list of all instrument provisions with references
  • Select See All under the provision label for the provision of interest to view the references to the provision

Provision Label Follow

  • Open the Actions menu within the references toolbar

Provisions Actions Menu

  • Click Follow Topic

Actions menu dropdown

  • The selected provision of the legal instrument has now been added to your followed topics.

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Receiving and Managing Notifications

Use this guide to understand how to best stay up to date with subjects, cases and analyses relevant to your research.

How to View your Followed Topics