March 24, 2016

Investor state dispute settlement and the $50 billion case

On July 18, 2014, an arbitral tribunal sitting in The Hague ordered the Russian Federation to pay shareholders of the defunct oil company Yukos an unprecedented sum of damages — $50 billion, plus $60 million in legal fees and costs. One year later, after Russia had made no move…

March 10, 2014

The New York Times Magazine: The most ambitious environmental lawsuit ever

“He compiled a list of private lawyers who have had success bringing major environmental lawsuits. It was a very short list. The first name on it was Gladstone N. Jones III, an attorney based in New Orleans who in 2006 won the largest judgment against the oil industry in the…