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Insolvency‐related foreign judgements in Nigeria: Contextualising English legal influence and comparative analysis of the UNCITRAL regime

open access: yesInternational Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has produced the most robust international insolvency regime applicable to countries around the world. The Model Law on Cross‐Border Insolvency (1997) is widely accepted and already very popular among African countries.
Pontian N. Okoli
wiley   +1 more source

Applying the Full Protection and Security Standard of International Investment Law to Digital Assets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article considers the possibility that digital assets of foreign investors such as websites and computer systems could be protected by the full protection and security (‘FPS’) standard common to many bilateral investment treaties.
Collins, D. A.
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Biodiversity Impacts of Investment and Free Trade Agreements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The following Article identifies the myriad ways in which international investment and free trade agreements interact with biodiversity. It categorizes these interactions into three main groups and provides a literature review of the various real-world ...
Rarrick, Lee C.
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‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
wiley   +1 more source

Sovereign Default Disputes in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Jurisdictional Considerations and Policy Implications

open access: yesGroningen Journal of International Law, 2015
In the aftermath of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis, creditors not participating in the country sovereign debt restructuring insisted on full payment. The triplet of investment arbitration decisions upheld jurisdiction over the mass claims presented by ...
Josef Ostřanský
doaj   +1 more source

Provisions on waiting periods in international investment protection treaties and their impact on the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2012
Provisions on so-called waiting periods in international investment protection treaties give an investor from one contracting state an opportunity to initiate arbitration against the host state provided that the time designated by the treaty from the ...
Đundić Petar
doaj   +1 more source

Theorizing the Cooling-Off Provision as an Additional Standard of Investment Protection

open access: yesUtrecht Journal of International and European Law, 2021
Most of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) contains a cooling-off period provision requiring both parties to an investment dispute to make an attempt to settle their differences amicably within a clear time frame, before initiating arbitration ...
Danilo Di Bella
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Predicting Outcomes in Investment Treaty Arbitration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Crafting appropriate dispute settlement processes is challenging for any conflict-management system, particularly for politically sensitive international economic law disputes.
Franck, Susan D., Wylie, Lindsey E.
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De‐Dollarization Is a Plausible Outcome of the New Washington Consensus

open access: yesGlobal 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
wiley   +1 more source

State succession to investment treaties: mapping the issues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Following recent decisions in Sanum v Laos and World Wide Minerals v Kazakhstan, investment lawyers have begun to engage with the legal rules governing State succession to treaties. As State succession is one of the more technical and controversial areas
Tams, Christian J.
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