The return of the Calvo Doctrine, which emphasizes the sovereignty of host states and the primacy of local legal remedies in resolving disputes involving foreign investors, has significant implications for the reform of the Investor-State Dispute ...
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Missing Calvo? Latin America’s love-hate relationship with the Investment Treaty Regime
For decades, following the views of the Argentine legal scholar Carlos Calvo, Latin American countries avoided adopting international investment treaties. The Calvo doctrine established that disputes between foreign investors and the state should only be
Lucas Silva Amorim +2 more
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The international investment regime is in crisis, nowhere more so than in regard to the investor–state dispute settlement system. While several developing countries have been critical of the system for some time, rich countries like the US and EU states ...
Álvaro Santos
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Limitations on Jurisdiction and Arbitration Agreements Based on Applicable Law and the Identity of the Carrier in Cargo Claim Disputes [PDF]
The article demonstrates through an analysis of the limitations on choice of forum or arbitration agreements following the invalidity of a choice of law clause included in a charter party and/or a bill of lading (B/L). It is equally difficult enforcing a
Echebarria Fernández, J.
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Sovereignty and regional integration in Latin America: a political conundrum?
There is an inherent contradiction between the regional integration projects in Latin America, albeit rhetorically conducted, and the staunch defense by most countries of their national sovereignty, which restricts and opposes many liberalization ...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
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INTRODUCTION. The article deals with the development of modern legislation on international commercial arbitration in Latin America. The role of OAS 1975 Panama convention as the starting point of development of the modern international commercial ...
O. A. MALOV
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Etiquette school manuals in Portugal in the 19th century [PDF]
A versão depositada corresponde ao pre-print da publicação.Etiquette (Civilidade) was included in the school curriculum, at the level of the first arts, as part of the pombalina reforms which, at the end of the 18th century and still within an ...
Pintassilgo, Joaquim
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Jurisdiction and Applicable Law to Contracts for the Sale of Goods and the Provision of Services including the Carriage of Goods by Sea and other Means of Transport in the European Union [PDF]
The article analyses the jurisdiction and applicable law to contracts for the sale of godos and the provision of services in the European Union. It particularly focuses on contracts that subsume different categories of contracts, such as the carriage of ...
Echebarria Fernández, J.
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COLOMBIA’S EXPERIENCES WITH INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT ARBITRATION: CONTEXT, CASES, TREATIES
This paper analyses Colombia’s experiences with international arbitration in disputes with foreign investors. Three periods of roughly 30 years were chosen: a) diplomatic protection of great powers’ expatriates in Latin America (Colombia) in the era of ...
LASZLO PALOTAS
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Soft balancing in the Americas : Latin American opposition to U.S. intervention, 1898–1936 [PDF]
In the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, scholars of international relations debated how to best characterize the rising tide of global opposition. The concept of “soft balancing” emerged as an influential, though contested, explanation of
Buchheit Lee C. +15 more
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