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.

This article contains the following topics:

Notifications overview
Following Topics
Alert Types
Notification Settings

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Notifications Overview

Subscribing to notifications from ISLG allows you to stay up to date with the latest content and analysis added to the application.

As an ISLG subscriber you can choose to receive notifications for:

New content added to ISLG:

Receive an email notification whenever a new dispute, dispute document or legal instrument is added to the tool.

New content added to one to one of your followed topics:
Receive automatic notifications when your bookmarked disputes, subjects, or legal instruments are updated with new information.
Shared research topics from your colleagues:
Be notified directly in your inbox when a colleague has shared research with you.

Following Topics

From within the ISLG application, you can simply and effectively follow topics of interest by selecting the ‘Follow topic’ option on the branch of interest within the research tools.

Screenshot of following a topic

Following a topic allows you to receive notifications if new content or analysis related to the followed topic is added to the application. This option is available throughout the research tools for following:

Disputes
Dispute documents, including specific paragraphs or passages that have been cited
Legal instruments, including specific provisions that have been cited
Subjects within the Subject Navigator
Terms/phrases within the Terms & Phrases tool
Publications, including specific portions that have been cited

Alert Types

The ISLG application offers two types of notifications:

In app alerts:
You are alerted to new notifications via the bell icon within the header of the application. Your notification will be listed in this menu and accessible via the ‘My Followed Topics’ link in the ‘My Account’ menu
Email notifications:
You can choose to subscribe to email notifications and also receive alerts directly to your inbox.

Notification Settings

Global notification settings can be managed via your ‘Account Preferences’ in the ‘My Account’ menu.

Within the Communications tab you can opt in or out of email notifications for:

New Content Added to ISLG
New Content Added to one to one of your followed topics
Shared research topics from your colleagues.

Email notifications for followed topics can also be controlled more granularly from within ‘My Followed Topics’, allowing you to set your notification preference per topic.

Followed Topics Page

Related Resources

Following a dispute or dispute document

You can simply and effectively stay up to date with how specific decisions have been treated by subsequent investment treaty tribunals, by following the document of interest within the Dispute Document Library.

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.

Following a subject

You can simply and effectively stay up to date with newly published, relevant analysis related to a topic of interest, by following a subject within the Subject Navigator tool. Following a subject will allow you to receive in-app notifications and email notifications when investment treaty decisions and awards have referred to the subject in question.

Following a publication

You can simply and effectively stay up to date with newly published, relevant analysis related to a publication of interest, by following the publication within the Publications Citator tool. Following a publication will allow you to receive in-app notifications and opt-in to email notifications for when investment treaty decisions and awards have referred to a publication.

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Notifications Overview

Following Topics

Alert Types

Notification Settings

Related Resources

Following a dispute or dispute document

Following a legal instrument

Following a subject

Following a publication

Introduction

Table of Contents

1. Consent

2. Who is Responsible for the Personal Information We Collect?

3. What Personal Information Do We Collect and How Do We Collect Personal Information?

4. How Do We Use the Personal Information?

5. How Do We Disclose Personal Information?

6. Your Right to Withdraw Consent

7. How Long Do We Retain Personal Information?

8. What Security Measures Do We Have in Place?

9. Cookies

10. Where Will We Transfer Personal Information?

11. Links to Third Party Websites

12. Accuracy and Access to Personal Information

13. Non-Personal Information

14. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

15. Other Matters

16. Contacting Us

1. Introduction

2. Use of the Website

3. Website Content

4. Proprietary Rights

5. Website Disclaimers/Liability Exclusions

6. ISLG Trial Subscription

7. General