Sentences with phrase «international investment law»

On the contrary, these reform debates are highly important in making informed and considered decisions about the future of international investment law and investor - State arbitration.

In this article, the author highlights the marginal role of moral damages in international investment law.

This means appreciating international investment law as a public law discipline and an instrument of global governance.

Nevertheless, the question arises whether certain domestic courts, which might have never been confronted with international investment law, will possess the relevant know - how to interpret international investment provisions.

Long gone are the days when international investment law may have been perceived as simply the subject of academic interest and consideration.

On the one hand, international investment law differs from traditional public international law in relation to its function.

She is the author of several publications in the fields of international investment law and investment arbitration and human rights law.

The author concludes that borrowing concepts from other fields of international law, such as the approach taken by human rights tribunals, can clarify the status of moral damages in international investment law.

At the same time, reforming international investment law is not only on the agendas of contracting parties, it also plays an important role for international organizations, such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), or the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

-- Making International Investment Law Responsive to Sustainable Development Objectives»), this framework should not be seen only as a matter of (potentially short - lived and changing) economic policies that differ from one country to another.

Yet, reconceptualizing international investment law and making use of comparative public law should not be limited to dispute settlement institutions.

In his following chapters the author successively examines six jurisdictions: German and US constitutional law, the law of the European Court of Human Rights, European Union Law, WTO law and finally international investment law.

As the judgment acknowledges, this case engaged «intriguing» questions of arbitral and international investment law which had not yet been considered by a Singapore court.

V.V. Veeder & A Legg «The Meaning of «Foreign Control» under Article 25 (2)(B) of the ICSID Convention», in M Kinnear et al (eds), Building International Investment Law: The First 50 Years of ICSID (2015, Kluwer Law International)

The reform proposals that result from these various initiatives reflect the political pressure international investment law is facing; they also put pressure on states to remedy the discontents with the current system (see my earlier post on EJIL: Talk!).

In fact, lawyers with either a commercial arbitration or a public international law background — the two approaches that most actively shape international investment law and arbitration at present — stress such a limited function of arbitration, while having divergent views on what the rule of law may mean in this context.

Because of the differences between international investment law and traditional public international law, on the one hand, and commercial arbitration, on the other, analogies with both systems, while certainly not excluded, have to be treated with caution.

Instead, we should develop a framework for investment law reform on the basis of more fundamental principles, in particular if we are looking for «systemic reform» that makes international investment law acceptable to all states.

A broad ranging, completely comprehensive and critical assessment of international law on foreign investment, the Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law discusses the major approaches to the substantive issues of foreign investment including the most - favored - nation principle, state responsibility, and competition law

The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law Edited by Peter Muchlinski, Professor in International Commercial Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Federico Ortino, Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum (ITF) at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and Christoph Schreuer, Professor in the Department for European, International, and Comparative Law, University of Vienna

At the time of the signing, a Canadian international investment law scholar named Gus Van Harten wrote an editorial warning of dire consequences if Canada ratified the BIT.

Helping to align investment arbitration with the functioning and the results of other systems of public law adjudication can contribute to forming an emerging consensus on the many contested issues in international investment law and afford legitimacy to the dispute settlement activity of investor - State arbitral tribunals.

Jason Yackee presented his work on investment treaties at Columbia Law School as part of the the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable Development's speaker series on International Investment Law and Policy.

Thinking of investor - State arbitration as a mechanism that is similar to judicial review, and adopting the methods and results of such mechanisms, in my view, is the key to reforming international investment law.

Although possibilities for reservations, including subsequent ones, are broad (Articles 3 and 4 of the Mauritius Convention), and although ongoing arbitrations are excluded from its scope of application (Article 5 of the Mauritius Convention), the Convention will establish transparency as a general principle of international investment law.

«Snowflakes in a Blizzard: International Investment Law as a Treaty Regime,» University of Tokyo Law School (June 2015)(presenter)

Todd N. Tucker is a political scientist and fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and author of Judge Knot: Politics and Development in International Investment Law.

Drawing from analysis of international investment law, Enrique Prieto Rios (Birkbeck, University of London) discussed the neoliberal emphasis on contractual relations and the broadening of the conception of property in the neoliberal period, including the increasing treatment of property as a right not to be restricted.

My Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, during our International Investment Law class, would always say that, international investment must always be protected against political interference.

An assessment of the potential interaction between the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the framework of international investment law.

In any event, increasing public law thinking in international investment law is also a call for more comparative law capacity - building and research, both by academics but also national institution and international organizations.

He is an expert in private and public international law, international arbitration, international investment law, international administrative law, and the law of conflicts of interest.

«International Investment Law and the Right to Regulate,» April 6, 2017 (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University)

This tribunal is based in Washington DC and consists of three specialized in international investment law.

His research focuses in particular on constitutional issues of EU external relations law and investigates the intersections of EU law, public international law and international investment law.

Professor Rudolf Dolzer is a professor at law at the University of Bonn and has published extensively on issues of international investment law, including Bilateral Investment Treaties (1995, with M. Stevens) and Principles of International Investment Law (2nd ed.

He is an expert in international investment law and regularly advises clients on their rights under international treaties.

The Investment Treaty Forum (ITF) was founded in 2004 with the aim of providing a global centre for serious high level debate in the field of international investment law.

Dr Li Hu is the Deputy Secretary General of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and is specialized in commercial arbitration and conciliation, intellectual property law, international trade law and international investment law.

Speaker, American Society of International Law Conference, April 11, 2014, «International Trade Law and International Investment Law: Complexity and Coherence»

We also regularly advise on cross-border trade due diligence, export controls, economic sanctions, Canada's Controlled Goods Program, trade remedies, government procurement, international environmental law, international intellectual property law, international investment law, import controls, interprovincial trade, foreign corruption laws and Cuban - blocking legislation.

Comparative public law is particularly useful because traditional methods of treaty interpretation and reliance on customary international law, while not irrelevant, face significant limits in international investment law.