2020
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Nitish Monebhurrun, « La demande reconventionnelle comme procédure permettant d’engager la responsabilité environnementale des investisseurs : l’exemple du droit international des investissements », Revue juridique de l’environnement, ID : 10670/1.pkhpbn
The arbitral procedure in international investment law is characterized by a specific logic in the establishment of a claim, the investor traditionally being the claimant and its host State, the defendant. Practice bears testimony that the activities of many investors, on one hand protected by a wide array of international investment agreements, can, on the other hand, have negative or irreversible impacts on the environmental and social components of their host States. If the latter does not normally have the means for a legal recourse against the investor in international law, the counterclaim procedure against a negligent investor has been successfully used in the recent arbitral practice. This article will accordingly peruse the function of environmental counterclaim as a procedural instrument enabling to engage the international investor’s responsibility, leading eventually to its condemnation.