Can you tell an amigo falso from a true one? Let's find out!
Part procedure, part history. Plenty of ways to put your ICSID knowledge to the test:
OED, OECD, UNCTAD, UNCITRAL. Can you decode all the acronyms before the timer runs out?
Community polls for international arbitration practitioners, written by Mallory Silberman. Voting happens live on this page; results appear after you vote.
Timed trivia games created by Mallory Silberman — free to play, with answers and explanations revealed in-game, and shareable scores. Sample questions from each set follow; the answers live inside the games.
Can you tell an amigo falso from a true one? Let’s find out! Eight volumes of rapid-fire questions on Spanish, French, and Portuguese terms that look like familiar English words — but often aren’t. 25 seconds per question; answers and explanations are revealed as you play.
Sample questions: In a legal context, the Spanish verb “redactar” means to… In Spanish, the number “billón” refers to… The Spanish word “éxito” means… The French word “blesser” means to… The French word “dossier” means… In Spanish, a “fábrica” is a… The Spanish word “americano” often refers to someone from… The Spanish word “inversión” means… In a business context, the French word “concurrence” refers to… In a legal setting, the Spanish word “sentencia” refers to a… In a legal context, the Spanish term “periodo de prescripción” refers to…
Part procedure, part history. Plenty of ways to put your ICSID knowledge to the test. Six volumes in two tiers — a three-volume Standard Challenge and a three-volume Expert Level — covering the ICSID Convention, the Regulations and Rules across their generations, and the Centre’s history, with questions drawing on the text of the Convention and the Rules themselves. 25 seconds per question; answers and pro tips are revealed as you play.
Sample questions: In what year did the Administrative Council adopt the first set of ICSID Regulations and Rules? True or False: The Institution Rules deal with the subject of the Centre’s inner workings as a World Bank institution. During the process for amending the 2006 rules, how many sets of working papers did the Secretariat release? What is the Spanish acronym for ICSID? Who is widely considered to be the “father of the ICSID Convention”? What is the French acronym for ICSID? How many grounds for annulment are contemplated in the ICSID Convention? “[Blank] is the cornerstone of the jurisdiction of the Centre.” What was the first ICSID case involving a bilateral investment treaty?
OED, OECD, UNCTAD, UNCITRAL. Can you decode all the acronyms before the timer runs out? Eight volumes decoding the acronyms and initialisms of international practice — treaties, institutions, currencies, corporate suffixes, and the everyday shorthand of cross-border casework, across several languages. 25 seconds per question; answers are revealed as you play.
Sample questions: In the context of an investment treaty, what does the acronym FET stand for? What is the Spanish-language analogue for the acronym NAFTA? In treaty jargon, what does the acronym EIF stand for? What does LCIA stand for? What is the Spanish acronym for UNCITRAL? What does the acronym OGEMID stand for? In Spanish, what is the acronym for “Most-Favored Nation”? What do the letters AF stand for in the acronym ICSID AF? What does the acronym FCN mean in the phrase “FCN treaty”?
