Frequently asked questions

1) What is available online?

Investment Claims brings you materials and analysis in the field of investor state arbitration. At present, all of the awards and decisions in Investment Claims are available free-of-charge, in the form of PDF files.

When the subscription site is launched early in 2008, it will feature:

• full texts of investment arbitration awards, accompanied by headnotes containing expert commentary. All headnotes have gone through a stringent review process with our eminent Editorial Board;
• searchable online versions of key OUP arbitration books and journal articles;
• bilateral investment treaties and travaux préparatoires;
• treaty sector overviews;
• institutional rules;
• relevant international and domestic legislation.

2) How often will Investment Claims be updated?

3) Which browsers will Investment Claims run on?

Investment Claims is designed to display and function correctly on the following browsers:

Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher for Windows
Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher for Macintosh
Netscape Navigator 6.0 and higher for Windows
Netscape Navigator 6.0 and higher for Macintosh
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Firefox 1.0 and higher for Windows
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Apple Safari 1.0 and higher for Macintosh

Pages will also display reliably on the following browsers:

Opera 7.0 for windows
Netscape 4.7 for Windows
Internet Explorer 4.0 for Windows
Netscape 4.7 for Macintosh
Internet Explorer 4.5 for Macintosh

Investment Claims will display reliably at 800x600, though we recommend 1024x768 as the optimum screen resolution.

4) How do I subscribe to the Investment Claims alert email?

5) How do I unsubscribe from the Investment Claims alert email?

If you have signed up for the Investment Claims alert email and no longer wish to receive it, you can unsubscribe by emailing listserv@webber.uk.oup.com, with the following text in the main body of the message (not in the email subject line): signoff IC-ALERTS-L.

6) Is Investment Claims accessible to disabled users?

7) What if I only want to print out bits of an award or decision and not the whole thing?

To do this use the Adobe Acrobat reader's print functionality, which is available from the File menu.

8) I can't access Investment Claims

9) I've spotted an error in Investment Claims.

10) How do I cite an award from Investment Claims?

Awards and decisions in Investment Claims are given static reference numbers, which follow the format: IIC 68 (2000), where 'IIC 68' is the report series award number and '2000' is the year of the award.

11) How are awards structured in Investment Claims?

Awards appear as rendered by the original arbitral tribunal (or as rendered by OPIC in the case of OPIC decisions). Paragraph numbering has been retained, where it appeared in the original, or otherwise added by OUP for ease of reference.

12) How long does it take for an award to appear in Investment Claims?

We would aim in most cases to have a report on a case within 8 weeks of the original judgment being given.

13) How do I suggest an award that isn't included in Investment Claims?

14) What material is original/official and what has been added by OUP?

The original case number, date, tribunal, original language awards and translations are original/official. With some awards OUP has added paragraph numbers or uploaded an unofficial translation and where this has occurred there is a note to that effect at the beginning of the award. All of the rest of the material has been created by OUP.