Jean-Michel Marcoux

Practicing Reform

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Hosted by Jean-Michel Marcoux, “Practicing Reform” is a five-episode bilingual podcast on the role of arbitrators in addressing investor misconduct and reforming international investment law. Resulting from a broader research project, each episode showcases the scholarship of an academic who has worked on the reform of international investment law or specific doctrines used by tribunals to address investor misconduct. Excerpts from semi-structured interviews with arbitrators are also included to assess how their perspective either support or conflict with academic research. This podcast benefi...

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Jean-Michel Marcoux

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Épisode 5 – La réforme du règlement des différends investisseur-État 22.06.2026 25:26

Au-delà de la prise en compte de la mauvaise conduite des investisseurs étrangers, le projet de recherche a également permis de mettre en lumière le rôle des arbitres dans la réforme du règlement des différends investisseur-État. En s’appuyant sur une observation des participants à Vienne et à New York, Guillaume François Larouche aborde les travaux du Groupe de travail III de la Commission des Na...

Episode 4 – Contributory Fault 22.06.2026 29:36

Some tribunals have relied on contributory fault to reduce damages owed to foreign investors, even after finding a breach of international obligations by the respondent state. Andrea K. Bjorklund and I go back to an article that we co-authored in 2020 on this concept. Andrea addresses the role of Article 39 of the ILC Articles as a basis for contributory fault in investment arbitration and the mai...

Episode 3 – Clean Hands 22.06.2026 30:40

In 2024, Yueming Yan published an article entitled “ Corruption and the (Un)Clean Hands Doctrine in Investor-State Arbitration: Definitional and Reciprocity Challenge ”. Building on the arguments that she developed in this article, we discuss the role of the clean hands doctrine in addressing corruption and other forms of investor misconduct in investment arbitration. We consider the contribution...

Épisode 2 – Ordre public transnational 22.06.2026 29:44

« Ordre public international », « ordre public transnational », « international public policy », « transational public policy » … Tous ces termes se retrouvent dans diverses sentences arbitrales afin de prendre en compte la mauvaise conduite des investisseurs étrangers. La professeure Catherine Kessedjian établit les distinctions nécessaires et met en lumière le rôle des arbitres dans l’utilisatio...

Episode 1 – The Reform of International Investment Agreements 22.06.2026 28:35

In this episode, Wolfgang Alschner and I discuss the state-driven reform of international investment law and how tribunals have responded to treaty innovations. In addition to Wolfgang’s groundbreaking book on the topic, we address the emergence of treaty provisions that pertain to investor misconduct and how tribunals have used various doctrines to tackle the issue – even in the absence of corres...