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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

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
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Investment Arbitration on Investment Treaty Design: Myth versus Reality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Investor-state arbitration (ISA) has shaped the practice, scholarship and teaching of international investment law, but to what extent has it shaped its substance?
Alschner, Wolfgang
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Opening the doors: Legal consequences of breaching international climate obligations in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change

open access: yesReview of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Replication data for: Development and Outcomes of Investment Treaty Arbitration

open access: yes, 2013
A major question in investment treaty arbitration is whether it is biased against developing countries. This paper replicates the results from a frequently cited paper on this question (Franck, 2009) that failed to find statistically significant results ...
Tucker, Todd
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Situating the ICJ's advisory opinion in the wider ecosystem of international climate litigation

open access: yesReview of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Inherently Unneutral Investment Treaty Arbitration: The Formation of Decisive Arguments in Jurisdictional Determinations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The legitimacy crisis of investment treaty arbitration is much discussed, often challenging the neutrality of that system as a whole. Besides concentrating on the direction in which cases are being decided, or in which the law is being interpreted, the ...
RADOVIĆ, Relja
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