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Optimal Financial Contracts for Large Investors: The Role of Lender Liability [PDF]

open access: yes
Our paper explores the optimal financial contract for a large investor with potential control over a firm's investment decisions. We show that an optimally designed menu of claims for a large investor will include features resembling a U.S.
Loretta J. Mester, Mitchell Berlin
core   +3 more sources

THE DECIMATION OF THE INTRA EU BITS [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges 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  

Achmea Between the Orthodoxy of the Court of Justice and Its Multi-faceted Implications: An Introduction

open access: yesEuropean Papers, 2019
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2019 4(1), 7-17 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. Achmea, from the perspective of international investment law specialists. - III.
Ségolène Barbou des Places   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

EU TAXONOMY: QUALIFYING AS GREEN [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2022
What is ‘sustainable’? What economic activity qualifies as green and should receive, accordingly, investments? Is nuclear energy green? Is gas green? The legal classification system defines a list of environmentally sustainable economic activities that ...
Alina Mihaela CONEA
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NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Cases: Lessons for the Central America Free Trade Agreement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This report describes how Canadian cattle producers are using NAFTA to demand $300 million in compensation from U.S. taxpayer funds, claiming that the Canadian cattle import ban instituted after mad cow disease was found in Canada violates their NAFTA ...
Lori Wallach, Mary Bottari
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

BG Group and “Conditions” to Arbitral Jurisdiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Although the Supreme Court has over the last decade generated a robust body of arbitration caselaw, its first decision in the area of investment arbitration under a Bilateral Investment Treaty was only handed down in 2014. BG Group v.
Bjorklund, Andrea K., Rau, Alan S.
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Mapping Intimate Partner Financial Abuse Across Public and Private Systems

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article maps the ways that intimate partner financial abuse presents, and the range of public and private entities involved in its perpetration. It reports on an analysis of submissions by individuals to the Australian parliamentary inquiry into the Financial Services Regulatory Framework in Relation to Financial Abuse.
Adrienne Byrt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Values and objectives of the EU in light of Opinion 1/17: ‘Trade for all’, above all

open access: yesEurope and the World, 2020
In Opinion 1/17 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the new Investment Court System (ICS) in the Canada–EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is compatible with the EU constitutional framework.
doaj   +2 more sources

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