论国际投资仲裁中第三方资助披露问题

Discussion on Disclosure of Third Party Funding in International Investment Arbitration

国际投资仲裁中的第三方资助不同于国际商事仲裁中的第三方资助,应对其进行专门研究。披露是规制第三方资助的关键。国际投资仲裁中关于第三方资助披露的规则呈现出缺位和模糊的总体特点。在国际投资仲裁中,第三方资助的受资助方基本均为申请人。由相关案件可知,现行实践与规则并不适配。实践中,披露的发起一般经由被申请人请求或仲裁庭要求,被申请人要求披露的原因常见于利益冲突和透明度,仲裁庭对披露要求的拒绝一般基于对披露程度的考量。将规则与实践对比分析可知,规定仲裁庭要求披露的时间,严格把控第三方资助的披露程度,是完善国际投资仲裁中第三方资助披露规制的可行路径。

Third party funding in international investment arbitration does not equal to third party funding in international commercial arbitration,so it is proper to make a special research on it.Disclosure is the crucial problem in regulation for third party funding.The rules of disclosure of third party funding in international investment arbitration appear to be blank and rough.In international investment arbitration,the funded party of third party funding is usually the Claimant.It is found that practice and rules cannot match through current international investment cases in relating to disclosure of third party funding.In practice,initiations of disclosure are generally by the application of the Respondent or the request of the Tribunal.The reasons that the Respondent applies for disclosure are normally the conflicts of interest and transparency.Tribunals’objections to disclosure are usually out of the consideration for the extent of disclosure.According to the comparison of practice and rules,regulating the time of requesting disclosure of the Tribunal and strictly limiting the extent of disclosure might be the applicable method to promote the regulation of disclosure of third party f unding in international investment arbitration.