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“Volunteering” to Arbitrate Through Predispute Arbitration Clauses: The Average Consumer’s Experience [PDF]
This article helps build the empirical foundation necessary for an informed debate regarding arbitration clauses in consumer contracts by providing preliminary insight into how businesses\u27 use of these clauses affects consumers\u27 ability to pursue ...
Demaine, Linda J., Hensler, Deborah R.
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Abstract In its landmark advisory opinion on States' obligations regarding climate change, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) tackled the highly contentious issue of the legal consequences of unlawful acts and State responsibility. While the Court adopted a more cautious approach on this matter than it did when interpreting States' primary ...
Yann Kerbrat, Sandrine Maljean‐Dubois
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Dispute Resolution in International Project Finance Transactions [PDF]
This essay discusses how the legal practice in international financial problems has slowly evolved towards a better recognition of international arbitration in the field of project financing.
Dugué, Christopher
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On Investment Law and Questions of Change
This article analyses the various ways in which investment law raises questions of change. It distinguishes between changes in international investment norms, and changes in a host state’s regulatory system which is subject to the control of such norms ...
Paine, J.
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Situating the ICJ's advisory opinion in the wider ecosystem of international climate litigation
Abstract Although international climate cases are a relatively recent phenomenon, the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) climate advisory opinion enters an increasingly well‐populated ecosystem of international climate jurisprudence. The ICJ's ruling, along with those of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) and the Inter ...
Jacqueline Peel
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Missing Binds: How Absent Ties Unleash Migrant Worker Activism Under an Authoritarian Regime
ABSTRACT Migrant workers are considered less militant in collective action than locals, partly because they lack social ties in the receiving community. However, in China's Pearl River Delta, I find the opposite. Comparing five cases of labor protest from 2014 to 2016 drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and labor activists' records, I ...
Zheng Fu
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The Clean Hands doctrine is currently applied in international investment arbitration. Tis doctrine has the effect that arbitration tribunals declare their lack of competence over to process the dispute proposed by the investor and the host State.
Andrés Armando Cervantes Valarezo
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Investment and rate of profit in a financial context: The French case [PDF]
The growth regime which prevailed in France since the middle of the 1980s is characterised by a recovery of profitability without durable resumption of growth or accumulation of productive capital.
Jacques Mazier, Mickaël Clévenot
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Abstract This study employed critical discursive and rhetorical psychology to analyse the discourses drawn upon to justify an arguably violent protest outside a previously disused hotel in rural Ireland, where 34 male asylum seekers had been accommodated.
Alastair Nightingale, Sarah Jay
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Abstract In the Inner Niger Delta, socio‐spatial transformations have profoundly reshaped relationships between communities and natural resources, intensifying tensions around access and management. In this context, local conventions (LCs) have emerged as essential instruments of social and environmental regulation in response to resource degradation ...
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