Concerns about inconsistency in the application of standards in arbitral awards are strongly present in investment treaty arbitration. In particular, tribunals can regularly exercise a varying scope of jurisdiction when they determine the legality ...
Andrés Talavera Cano
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International investment liberalization, transnational corporations and NCD prevention policy non-decisions: a realist review on the political economy of tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food. [PDF]
Milsom P, Smith R, Baker P, Walls H.
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The Right to Regulate in Investor- State Arbitration: Slicing and Dicing Regulatory Carve-Outs [PDF]
This Article examines the “right to regulate” as the power of a sovereign state to adopt and maintain government measures for public welfare objectives. It explores how claims by foreign investors in investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) may interfere
Korzun, Vera
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The human side of protecting foreign investment. [PDF]
Endres D.
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The Mauritius Convention on Transparency and the Multilateral Tax Instrument: models for the modification of treaties? [PDF]
The investment treaty network and the tax treaty network comprise more than 3,000 treaties each. The provisions of these treaties generally are highly customized on the basis of the investment flows and economic interests of the contracting States ...
Bravo, Nathalie
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Soft and Hard Strategies: The Role of Business in the Crafting of International Commercial Law [PDF]
Part I returns to the classic definition of hard international law initially put forward by Kenneth Abbott and Duncan Snidal and related IR scholars and analyzes existing commercial law treaties in light of this definition.
Susan Block-Lieb
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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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Invoking State Responsibility in the Twenty-First Century [PDF]
This essay reviews the articles on the invocation of state responsibility, analyzes them in historical context, and notes where they represent progressive development of international law.
Weiss, Edith Brown
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Do international trade and investment agreements generate regulatory chill in public health policymaking? A case study of nutrition and alcohol policy in South Africa. [PDF]
Milsom P +3 more
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Spain is a world leader in solar energy production and until 2009 operated a feed-in tariff policy that provided solar energy producers with a preferential price for the electricity they fed back into the grid.
Stuart, Thomas
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