<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[digital legal studies ]]></title><description><![CDATA[DLS]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:14:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/tr/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[One Lithium Project, Three Treaty Proceedings]]></title><description><![CDATA[One cancelled lithium project, three ICSID proceedings, a pending consolidation request and a publicly disclosed funder. Why Sonora is an unusually clean case study.]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/sonora-lithium-three-icsid-proceedings-consolidation-funding</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f3012bca6fdcb434cce09</guid><category><![CDATA[Investment Arbitration]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_55ec0e7b244043648743066cca14ee10~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jupiter v. Nigeria: Reading a Lithium Dispute as Data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jupiter Lithium v. Nigeria sits in a small but fast-growing category: UNCTAD records just 51 ISDS cases on energy-transition minerals since 1987, six of them in 2024 alone.]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/jupiter-nigeria-lithium-dispute-critical-minerals-data</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f2da92aa0dd3fa167b1b6</guid><category><![CDATA[Investment Arbitration]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_6f4637686839376c567141~mv2_d_3629_1910_s_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Microsoft–OpenAI Non-Merger Teaches Regulators]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK's competition authority spent fifteen months on a partnership it ultimately said wasn't a merger at all. Background The UK Competition and Markets Authority closed its merger inquiry into the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership on 5 March 2025, concluding that there was no basis to review the arrangement under the UK's merger control regime, and published a full decision on 15 April 2025. The inquiry had examined whether the terms of Microsoft's investment and commercial arrangement with...]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/what-the-microsoft-openai-non-merger-teaches-regulators</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a71ff70996a964daaab2575</guid><category><![CDATA[Law & Technology]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:23:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_376f6a79702d4958573777~mv2_d_3937_2953_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private Capital Discovers the Law Firm]]></title><description><![CDATA[The management-services-organisation model is how private equity gets into law firms without technically owning them. Background Rules against non-lawyer ownership of law firms remain in force across most of the United States, but private capital has found a structure that works around them without technically breaching them: the management services organisation, or MSO. Under this model, practising attorneys retain formal ownership of the law firm itself, while a private-equity-backed...]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/private-equity-law-firms-mso-legal-services-regulation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a71f9b44ce377cead63e734</guid><category><![CDATA[Law & Technology]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_d02c895ceec64b208db2d6af823c89ee~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arbitrating Losses in an Active War]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ukraine's investment-treaty exposure didn't pause for the invasion. It got more complicated. Background Investment treaty arbitration involving Ukraine has continued throughout the full-scale war, running on two separate tracks that are easy to conflate but legally distinct. One track consists of pre-war disputes, arising from grievances that predate February 2022, working their way through ICSID and other fora on their own long-standing procedural timelines. The other, newer track consists...]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/ukraine-wartime-investment-arbitration-attribution</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a71f66035b726342fc968f0</guid><category><![CDATA[Investment Arbitration]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_8641a5f6d6a84c52a7227ed9ea41c843~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Real Estate Empire Turns to ICSID]]></title><description><![CDATA[Al Habtoor Group's $1.7 billion claim against Lebanon, and what it says about arbitrating a banking crisis. Background Dubai-based Al Habtoor Group, one of the United Arab Emirates' larger diversified conglomerates with interests spanning hospitality, automotive, real estate and education, has formally filed a Request for Arbitration with ICSID against the Lebanese Republic. The claim proceeds under the UAE–Lebanon bilateral investment treaty, in force since 1999, and follows a notice of...]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/al-habtoor-lebanon-icsid-banking-crisis-claim</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a71f22b35b726342fc95da7</guid><category><![CDATA[Investment Arbitration]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_bb80ac027b7b4f35a595f51557eb20c5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Panama Ports Dispute and the Problem of Spillover]]></title><description><![CDATA[Panama's annulment of the CK Hutchison port concessions triggered a USD 2 billion ICC arbitration, and effects far beyond it. A case for measuring dispute spillovers.]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/panama-ports-dispute-arbitration-spillover-effects</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f2abce9cefb3dd6b46eb9</guid><category><![CDATA[Investment Arbitration]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_868ebaa2213945a8a512b2d49262a784~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opening the Market, Keeping the Ceiling]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia scrapped its Qualified Foreign Investor status. It kept the 49 percent cap. Background On 1 February 2026, Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority implemented amendments to the Rules for Foreign Investment in Securities, opening the Kingdom's capital market to all categories of foreign investors for direct investment on the Tadawul, the Saudi stock exchange. The reform eliminates the Qualified Foreign Investor status that had gated direct market access since 2015, removes the...]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/saudi-arabia-capital-market-foreign-investment-reform-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a71ed8135b726342fc95144</guid><category><![CDATA[Regulation & Policy]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_4b54647a656232386a796f~mv2_d_3840_5760_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Screening at the Edge of Two Systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greenland gets its own FDI screening law just as the EU moves to tighten its own — over the same critical minerals. Background Greenland's own investment-screening regime, announced as part of its Foreign, Security, and Defense Strategy for 2024–2033, entered into force on 1 January 2026, covering eight sensitive industries including raw materials. Almost simultaneously, the European Union has been working through a review of its own FDI screening regulation that is expected to introduce...]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/eu-greenland-fdi-screening-critical-minerals</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a71e50c4ce377cead63b1db</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_b01c7657f1014358848520ce262dd487~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading the 2026 Risk Signals]]></title><description><![CDATA[What the major law firms' 2026 arbitration forecasts agree on, and why the agreement itself is the interesting part. Background Every January, a cluster of major international law firms publish forward-looking notes on arbitration trends for the year ahead. Read individually, each is a piece of client-facing commentary. Read together, the 2026 crop — from Freshfields, Cleary Gottlieb, Baker McKenzie, Charles River Associates, A&#38;O Shearman and Crowell &#38; Moring, among others — functions as...]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/investment-arbitration-risk-signals-2026-forecasts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a71dca838c9ffde3480ac45</guid><category><![CDATA[Regulation & Policy]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_576236337a714a35676e45~mv2_d_4800_3188_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Training Data Becomes a Legal Claim]]></title><description><![CDATA[Publishers move to join a proposed class action against Google over AI training — and why that procedural step matters more than it sounds. Background On 15 January 2026, publishers Hachette Book Group and Cengage Learning filed a motion to intervene in an existing, author-led proposed class action against Google in the Northern District of California, arising out of allegations that Google misused copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI models. The publishers' filing specifically sought...]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/google-ai-training-data-publishers-class-action</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a71d3b174012f5a96fa7c88</guid><category><![CDATA[Law & Technology]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_c616aea4318f4d838226e3cd473d2c71~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Other ISDS: Arbitration Under National Investment Laws]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most investor-state research studies treaties. UNCTAD's newest report studies statutes instead — and finds the same risks hiding in plainer sight. Background UNCTAD published Investment Policy Monitor, Issue No. 32, on 4 December 2025, under the title Investor–State Arbitration under Investment Laws: Risks and Policy Lessons. It builds on the earlier Investment Policy Monitor No. 29, which had tracked global trends in the drafting of national investment laws, and turns instead to a question...]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/unctad-investment-policy-monitor-32-national-investment-laws</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a71d0ccd9c2f27b9b150371</guid><category><![CDATA[Legal Data & Methods]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_c2a1ffb869b94d0f941a5dfe72e54ea9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Second Forum for Investor-State Disputes?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Singapore's commercial court turns ten, and starts doing work that looks a lot like arbitration's job. Background The Singapore International Commercial Court held a conference marking its tenth anniversary in January 2025, drawing more than 420 delegates from fifteen jurisdictions. A decade in, the court's docket has moved well beyond the general cross-border commercial disputes it was originally designed to hear, into territory that overlaps increasingly with the traditional preserve of...]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/singapore-sicc-investor-state-enforcement-role</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a71cd00b174d357009070b0</guid><category><![CDATA[Investment Arbitration]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_b5e806afe26d497eaabe6959c812cf20~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Investment Map Is Being Redrawn]]></title><description><![CDATA[UNCTAD's World Investment Report 2025 shows FDI falling for a second straight year, down sharply in Europe and up in North America. What the split means.]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/the-investment-map-is-being-redrawn</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a704e6916cff318c1877a7f</guid><category><![CDATA[Regulation & Policy]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f2c5a0_bfbeead52b534803b34b6d1a2c659bed~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_939,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Withdrawal Is Not an Exit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Romania is leaving the Energy Charter Treaty — but Article 47's twenty-year sunset clause means the treaty's investment protections outlive the withdrawal itself. A look at why exiting an energy treaty is not the same as being free of it.]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/withdrawal-is-not-an-exit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f66d03e0c16484ff90afe</guid><category><![CDATA[Investment Arbitration]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:07:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f2c5a0_bbc35a9d05b9474ab5f759d0634a18fb~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_805,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform as a Corpus]]></title><description><![CDATA[UNCITRAL WGIII produces a complete, dated, public drafting record going back a decade. Read as a corpus rather than as doctrine, it becomes measurable.]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/uncitral-wgiii-isds-reform-drafting-record-corpus</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f42333e0c16484ff8b381</guid><category><![CDATA[Legal Data & Methods]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_785f3068572d4b61436749~mv2_d_4096_2726_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay, Disclosure, and Disruption]]></title><description><![CDATA[A stayed award, a transparency report and a caseload statistic. Each shows a gap between what investment arbitration is designed to do and what it observably does.]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/annulment-stay-transparency-icsid-caseload-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f3f66bca6fdcb434cf674</guid><category><![CDATA[Investment Arbitration]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_e2adfcf0d7334e3bbb91b0b23f45f3df~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a Billion-Dollar Claim Fails at the Gate]]></title><description><![CDATA[A PCA tribunal declined jurisdiction over Zeph Investments' USD 305 billion claim against Australia. What the award tells us about who qualifies as a foreign investor.]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/zeph-investments-australia-jurisdiction-foreign-investor</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f258c2aa0dd3fa167a025</guid><category><![CDATA[Investment Arbitration]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_44356b4d484778675a4d49~mv2_d_3543_2655_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Treaty That Never Entered Into Force]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is no US-Russia BIT in force and Russia never ratified the ICSID Convention. Exxon's Sakhalin-1 claim shows what is left when the treaty layer is simply absent.]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/exxon-russia-sakhalin-no-treaty-enforcement-gap</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f3ccc3e0c16484ff8a4a3</guid><category><![CDATA[Investment Arbitration]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_8656537e29104f629344433a93a2b338~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Investor Is Also a State]]></title><description><![CDATA[Orsted is majority State-owned and lost a nearly complete wind project to a regulatory order. Whether such an investor can even reach ICSID is an unsettled question.]]></description><link>https://www.digitallegalstudies.com/post/state-owned-investors-icsid-jurisdiction-broches-test</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f398abca6fdcb434ce603</guid><category><![CDATA[Investment Arbitration]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_b875d295c6c14a63b2e18b256885a87b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aişe Gül Akkoyun</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>