Politicization of a Future International Investment Tribunal's Appointment and How to Avoid It
In 1965, the World Bank promoted the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention) with the aim of filtering any political and diplomatic influence out of international investment ...
Lukas Florian Innerebner
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Aron Broches, Selected Essays: World Bank, ICSID and Other Subjects of Public and Private International Law [PDF]
With the possible exception of international peace and security, global economic development has been the dominant theme in international law and international relations since the end of the Second World War.
Essien, Victor
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Trend Spotting: NAFTA Disputes After Fifteen Years [PDF]
Cross-border investment disputes have supplanted trade disputes as the main focus of legal actions under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), according to this study.
Lawrence L. Herman
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Labor Rights and Labor Standards in International Trade [PDF]
[Excerpt] This Article seeks to […] articulate a defense of enforceable international labor rights and labor standards as part of a trade, investment and development strategy that will benefit whole societies, not just their wealthy sectors.
Compa, Lance A
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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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China's intellectual property rights commitments in the WTO: legal and economic implications [PDF]
This article assesses the compliance of China's domestic laws in the area of intellectual property rights protection with the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which China obliged to accept upon its entrance into the ...
Fojtíková, Lenka
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Tax Havens as Producers of Corporate Law [PDF]
This Review Essay situates Christopher Bruner’s new book, Re-imagining Offshore Finance, within the literature examining the regulation of cross-border finance and highlights its import for thinking about the complicated (and contested) relationship ...
Moon, William J.
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Interaction Between Trade and Competition: Why a Multilateral Approach for the United States? [PDF]
This thesis consists of two essays and an introduction. The main theme is technological knowledge that is not based on the natural sciences.The first essay is about rules of thumb, which are simple instructions, used to guide actions toward a specific ...
Chang, Seung Wha
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Understanding the debate about policy space: from the WTO to EU FTAs [PDF]
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Gheyle, Niels, Martens, Deborah
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Arbitration, the World Trade Organization, and the Creation of a Multilateral Investment Court
Abstract The proliferation of international tribunals has reached the investment sphere. The European Union and its treaty partners have included an investment court system in the four individual investment agreements they have negotiated since the European Union took competence over foreign direct investment with the passage of the ...
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