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The Multilevel Implications of a Sinn Féin Government in Ireland

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 173-179, January/March 2025.
Abstract The electoral growth of Sinn Féin on both sides of the Irish border has generated much political and academic attention in recent years. The party could form part of the government in Dublin for the first time at the next Irish general election, though that outcome is far from certain.
Conor J. Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

THE DECIMATION OF THE INTRA EU BITS [PDF]

Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2018
The article concentrates on the process which led to the decimation of the intra-EU Bilateral Investment Treaties, due the affirmation of the public policy of European Union which takes precedence over the international obligations arisen for states ...
Beatrice Onica JARKA
doaj  

Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 189-198, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the ...
John Denham, Janice Morphet
wiley   +1 more source

Intellectual Property Restitution

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In Europe, open GLAM movements and cultural restitution reforms are overlooking a crucial aspect that should not be underestimated: what should happen to the archival materials, digital collections and intellectual property that are indelibly linked to cultural property.
Andrea Wallace, Mathilde Pavis
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of heterogeneity in bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment

Journal of Applied Economics
Prior research remains highly debated regarding whether bilateral investment treaties (BITs) effectively attract foreign direct investment (FDI). In this context, this study introduces a new dataset, the international investment agreement (IIA) mapping ...
Zhaokuan Zhu, Chang-Bong Kim, Jaeeun Hwang   +2 more
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Consideration Without Economic Duress: Reframing the Analysis of Contractual Modifications

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Prevailing approaches to the contractual enforceability of modifications revise or dispense with the requirement of consideration and invoke economic duress to rule out unfair, inequitable, or bad faith modifications. Enforceability turns effectively on the absence of economic duress. But economic duress is a doctrine of avoidance.
Peter Benson
wiley   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign direct investment and bilateral investment treaties: An international political perspective [PDF]

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009
This paper investigates the effect of the implementation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on the bilateral stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI). We argue that the understanding of how BITs affect FDI requires recognizing that multinational enterprises (MNEs) are not Stateless and that their investment return may well depend on the quality ...
Desbordes, R., Vicard, V.
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“Green Developmentalism” and the Role of International Law in Negotiating the Energy Transition

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy evolutions in North American and European capitals have prompted debates about ongoing shifts in global economic governance from a primary emphasis on promoting markets to a more extensive role for the state in steering economic relations.
Lorenzo Cotula
wiley   +1 more source

Do the European Union's bilateral investment treaties matter? The way forward after Lisbon. CEPS Working Document No. 333, July 2010 [PDF]

, 2010
This working paper addresses a number of policy-relevant issues regarding the EU’s bilateral investment treaties (BITS), namely, whether the EU’s BITs have a significantly positive impact on outflows; and which member states and which BIT partners have ...
Guerin, Selen.
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