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Human Rights Law and the Investment Treaty Regime

open access: yes, 2019
In its current form, the international investment treaty regime may stymie the business and human rights agenda in various ways. The regime may incentivize governments to favour the protection of investors over the protection of human rights.
Cordes, Kaitlin Y.   +2 more
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The Enforcement of environmental norms in investment treaty arbitration

open access: yes, 2011
Introduction: The dense network of more than three thousand treaties for the protection of foreign investments, the majority of which confer rights directly upon non-state actors, is without an analogue in any other branch of international law.
Douglas Z.
core   +1 more source

From Ship to Shore: A Review of Vessel‐To‐Grid Bidirectional Charging for Sustainable Maritime Transport

open access: yesEcoEnergy, EarlyView.
As maritime transport electrifies, bidirectional charging (V2G) offers a dual‐purpose solution for energy resilience and economic viability. This work identifies key technological advancements and lifecycle challenges utilizing practical case studies to demonstrate how V2G systems can drive decarbonization and grid stability in the marine sector ...
Jonathan Bloor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Practical issues relating to the taxation of Real Estate Investment Trusts ("REITs") in South Africa.

open access: yes, 2013
Includes bibliographical references.In this dissertation, the author focuses on the practical tax issues relating to the recently adopted South African Real Estate Investment Trust tax dispensation, by discussing international principles of Real Estate ...
Ungerer, Maryke
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Ways out of the marshland: international investment law and the law of state succession

open access: yes, 2023
This chapter addresses the interaction between the general regime of State succession to treaties, and recent investment law practice relating to it.
Tams, Christian
core   +1 more source

Nested Institutions and Overlapping Mandates: A Policy Analysis of Mangrove Governance in Ghana, Tanzania Mainland, and Zanzibar

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mangroves are critical resources in sustaining coastal communities by providing essential ecosystem goods and services. Occurring within the interface of land and sea, they serve as critical ecological zones shaped by dynamic interactions between terrestrial and marine systems.
Menelisi Falayi   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legitimacy and Reflexivity in International Investment Arbitration: A New Self-Restraint?

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2011
There are at least two views within investment arbitration about how to respond to legitimation problems associated with inconsistent rulings, latitudinal interpretations, and arbitral bias and conflicts of interest.
David Schneiderman
doaj   +2 more sources

BITing Back: Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Struggle to Define an Investment Regime for the Americas

open access: yesPolicy and Society, 2004
Abstract This paper examines the consequences of the breakdown of talks on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the generalized shift from multilateralism to bilateralism in the Americas for the region’s emerging foreign investment regime.
openaire   +1 more source

Policy Networks and Policy Entrepreneurship in the EU: Explaining Structural Policy Change in Pharmaceutical Innovation Incentives and Health Technology Assessment

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy process research has excelled in explaining structural policy change within national settings, but extensions and applications to the EU level have long proven challenging for scholars. Given that the EU is currently experiencing its longest period of Treaty stability since the 1980s—having evolved into a sui generis political system ...
Vassilis Karokis‐Mavrikos
wiley   +1 more source

The EU's Strategy for Sustainability: A Landmark Turn With the European Green Deal?

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the European Green Deal (EGD) has been widely recognized as a milestone in the EU's sustainability strategy, scholars disagree on the nature of the policy change it represents. Critics highlight its limited social and environmental ambitions, despite its portrayal as a “man on the moon” moment.
Ekaterina Domorenok, Franco Gatti
wiley   +1 more source

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