Email this article Matters of jurisdiction of disputes in the sphere of investment arbitration
- Authors: Gavrilenko V.A.1,2, Gavkalyuk A.B.3
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Affiliations:
- Saint-Petersburg University State Fire Service of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense
- Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University
- National Research University Higher School of Economics
- Issue: Vol 9, No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 256-264
- Section: Issues of Private and Public Law
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/2587-9340/article/view/295341
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.20310/2587-9340-2025-9-2-256-264
- ID: 295341
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Investment arbitration is a separate branch of commercial arbitration designed to settle disputes on legal relations in the field of investment and investment. As a rule, the parties to these disputes belong to different states and different legal systems. Consequently, investment disputes, in most cases, are subject to international rather than national commercial arbitration. The purpose of the study is to analyze the matters of jurisdiction of disputes of economic turnover subjects to arbitration courts in the sphere of investment arbitration and the competence of arbitration institutions to consider these types of disputes. Arbitration of the aforementioned disputes has its original peculiarities that allow to assert the sectoral nature of investment arbitration. The institute of commercial arbitration as a means of settlement of investment disputes is also quite developed and demanded in the world legal and economic systems. Investment activity of business entities is widespread in the modern economy and requires different ways of settling possible disputes and conflicts. This publication studies legal issues of arbitrability of disputes, in general, and certain types of disputes in the sphere of investment legal relations, in particular. Conclusions are made about the main advantages and disadvantages of legal regulation of the institute of investment arbitration in modern law.
About the authors
Vladimir A. Gavrilenko
Saint-Petersburg University State Fire Service of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense; Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: gv22@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7357-3526
Cand. Sci. (Law), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Theory and History of State and Law Department; Associate Professor of Civil Law and Process Department
Russian Federation, 149 Moskovsky Ave., St. Petersburg, 196105, Russian Federation; 41 Bolshaya Sankt-Peterburgskaya St., Veliky Novgorod, 173003, Russian FederationAnna B. Gavkalyuk
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Email: annettjnn@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0009-0005-6908-020X
Researcher at the Scientific and Educational Laboratory of International Justice
Russian Federation, 11 Pokrovsky Blvd St., Moscow, 109028, Russian FederationReferences
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Authors’ contribution
V.A. Gavrilenko – scientific literature research and analysis, normative documents analysis, writing – original draft preparation, manuscript preparation in accordance with the Editorial requirements. A.B. Gavkalyuk – research idea, methodology development, regulatory and legal literature analysis, writing – original draft preparation.
