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Human Rights and Investment Arbitration – Fields of Interaction
Przegląd Prawno-Ekonomiczny, 2022 The main scientific purpose of this article is to identify and analyse legal issues that arise between human rights and investment arbitration. At first glance, these two branches of public international law remain completely unrelated and do not have ...
Magdalena Michalska-Guzik
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X v The Lord Advocate: Challenges and Concerns for Vicarious Liability
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.In X v The Lord Advocate, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held that the Crown cannot be vicariously liable for torts committed by judges. This case note critically examines what could be viewed as two significant doctrinal shifts that were introduced by this ruling.
Haim Abraham
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The European Union in International Investment Governance: a Hybrid Approach to Dispute Settlement [PDF]
Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2018 Investor-state dispute settlement and arbitration, in particular, stands at the centre of a process intended to reform the global regime of international investment treaties.
Beatriz Pérez de las Heras
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Book Review: Selected Writings on International Law, Adjudication and Arbitration (Volumes I & II) by Jamal Seifi [PDF]
Iranian Journal of International and Comparative LawThe two-volume book *Selected Articles on International Law, Adjudication, and Arbitration* by Dr. Seyed Jamal Seifi, a distinguished international arbitrator and former judge at the Iran- United States Claims Tribunal, compiles articles published over ...
Kamal Javadi
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Post‐Breach Events, Itemisation and the Avoided Loss Rule
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.In English law, the following equation is used to compute damages awards: (a) loss sustained in consequence of the breach of duty (‘prima facie loss’) minus (b) benefits obtained as a result of the breach of duty = (c) net loss. This paper explores the manner in which prima facie loss is defined.
Melody Hadfield
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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Incidence, Risk, and Disclosure of Corporate Litigation: Insights from Federal Court Filings
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We assemble and describe a sample of 174,782 lawsuits filed against 218,437 public‐company lawsuit‐defendants in federal district court from 2006 to 2021. These lawsuits involve an array of allegations, including product liability, civil rights discrimination, contract breaches, improper compensation and labor practices, antitrust violations ...
MARY BROOKE BILLINGS +3 more
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Recognition of Contracts as Investments in International Investment Arbitration [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 The issue of recognition of contractual rights as protected investments in international investment arbitration, primarily under the auspices of ICSID, has sparked divergent approaches in case law. Treatment of certain contracts and the criteria used differ, which leads to unwelcome consequence of lowering legal certainty in a very sensitive issue. The
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De‐Dollarization Is a Plausible Outcome of the New Washington Consensus
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A trend towards de‐dollarization of the global economy in which the US dollar ceases to be used as the world's reserve currency for international transactions confronts some of the existing structures of international economic law, built upon the rules set out by US‐led organizations like the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. This article will
David Collins
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Foundational Fracture: Failing to Reform the World Trade Organization in an Age of Geopolitics
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The World Trade Organization (WTO) is at the crossroads, with a principal challenge raised to the organization by the United States in 2025 and a series of related, largely unsuccessful reform attempts over the last several years. To shed new light on why recent WTO reform attempts have been proving so difficult, we leverage evidence from ...
Michal Parizek, Clara Weinhardt
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