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Concours de dissertation Jacques-Yvan Morin

The World Bank’s Dispute Resolution Service: Procedural Reforms to Ensure Meaningful Access to Remedies for Project-Affected People[Notice]

  • Jonathan Brosseau

Récipiendaire du Prix Jacques-Yvan Morin de dissertation juridique 2025. L’article a également été publié dans la Revue de prévention et règlement des différends.

Member of the Quebec Bar; Doctor of Law candidate at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Doctor of Civil Law candidate at McGill University; Doctoral Fellow of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security; Contrat doctoral of the École Doctorale de Droit de la Sorbonne; Europaeum Programme Scholar.

This paper was drafted during a Research Fellowship at the United Nations University and initially published in its peer-reviewed research series under the title: “How the World Bank’s Dispute Resolution Services Should Benefit Affected People and Borrowing States.” A refined version was later published in a volume edited by Professors Christina Voigt and Caroline Foster, titled “International Courts versus Non-Compliance Mechanisms: Comparative Advantages in Strengthening Treaty Implementation,” by Cambridge University Press in 2024. The present version is published here with permission. It is updated with analyses from the first four cases at the DRS, additional confidential interviews with key stakeholders, and further analyses based on best practices relating to dispute resolution.

The author is grateful for the insightful comments from the organizers and participants of various international conferences where he presented the paper. These include comments by Professors Voigt and Foster during the 2021 “International Courts versus Compliance Mechanisms” conference, and the 2022 “World Commission on Environmental Law” conference, both hosted by PluriCourts, at the University of Oslo. The presentation at the second of these conferences is available through an online video recording: <YOUTUBE.COM watch?v="E_roewH9A0A">. Professor Desiree LeClercq (Ganz), Dr Suresh Nanwani, and Professors Diane Desierto and Anibal Perez-Linan also provided useful feedback during the 2023 American Society of International Law’s International Organisations Group workshop, the 2022 Society of International Economic Law’s Early Professionals conference, and the 2021 University of Notre Dame’s Reparations Design and Compliance Lab seminar, respectively. Finally, the author thanks David Hunter, Daniel Bradlow, and the two anonymous peer reviewers.

All views expressed and any remaining errors are those of the author alone.

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