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The Investment Treaty Regime and Development Policy Space in Ghana

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter explores the relationship between Ghana's standards of investment protection by treaty and its development policy-making and implementation obligations under the constitution of the Republic of Ghana 1992 and general international law. It advances four theses.
Dagbanja Dominic N
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The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa

open access: yes, 2022
Abstract Regulatory autonomy inheres in state sovereignty. Legally, it arises out of states’ primary duties to regulate in the public interest which are sourced from national constitutions and general international law. Accordingly, states commonly invoke national constitutions and general international law in defence of measures ...
Dagbanja, Dominic,
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The politics of petroleum and the Energy Charter Treaty as an effective investment regime

Journal of Energy Finance & Development, 1999
Abstract The Energy Charter Treaty is assessed as an international regime for the promotion of investment in petroleum among participating states. Like any other international regime, the eventual effectiveness of this treaty will depend more on the convergence of interests of the parties than on legal niceties and enforcement.
Philip Andrews-Speed
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Reassertion of Control over the Investment Treaty Regime

open access: yes, 2016
Driven by public opinion in host states, contracting parties to investment agreements are pursuing many avenues in order to curb a system that is being perceived - correctly or not - as having run out of control. Reassertion of Control over the Investment Treaty Regime is the first book of its kind to examine the many issues of procedure, substantive ...
Kulick, Andreas,
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The (In)Compatibility of Appellate Mechanisms with Existing Instruments of the Investment Treaty Regime

open access: yesThe Journal of World Investment & Trade, 2017
In its recent treaties, the European Union (EU) has established a new model of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). The EU’s new model entails the replacement of ad hoc arbitration with standing, treaty-based investment tribunals, staffed with judges appointed by the states parties.
N. Jansen Calamita
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The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa

open access: yesICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal, 2023
The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa is a legal, normative, and principled framework for rethinking the making and reform of investment treaties, and investment disputes ...
Dagbanja, Dominic Npoanlari,
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Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs): The Global Investment Regime and Human Rights

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Does globalization just create welfare gains, or is it accompanied by lower accountability, reduced welfare provision, labor standards or human rights? We argue that the broad and legally enforceable protection offered to foreign investors by bilateral investment treaties (BITs) worsens the human rights practices of developing countries.
Cristina Bodea, Fangjin Ye
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Reassertion of Control over the Investment Treaty Regime

open access: yes, 2017
"Driven by public opinion in host states, contracting parties to investment agreements are pursuing many avenues in order to curb a system that is being perceived - correctly or not - as having run out of control.
Kulick, Andreas,
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The Environment, Human Rights, and the Investment Treaty Regime in Africa

2022
Abstract Chapter 4 focuses on human rights and environmental regulation of foreign investment. The environment and human rights are protected, in part, by the enactment or making and enforcement of environmental and human rights laws and policies.
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