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31 Jul 2020

Academic Webinar: Inspection Panel and Investment Law: Parallel Dynamics

Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAM), such as the World Bank Inspection Panel, are means to give a voice to affected communities that are directly impacted by development projects financed by IFIs. IAMs contribute to holding these institutions accountable for their decisions through independently administered processes intended to provide affected people with access to recourse and possible redress. The World Bank Inspection Panel, the first example of IAMs, was created in 1993 to investigate claims, made by two or more affected claimants, of noncompliance with Bank policies in the design and implementation of Bank projects. Investment arbitration, on the other hand, has proceeded and is generally understood, as a mechanism that hardly engages local communities. A recent tendency is, however, to take into account to a limited extent the local communities impacted by the investment. Dr Fromageau's project aims at investigating these parallel dynamics between international development law and investment law by adopting a case-law analysis methodology.


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