Analogies in International Investment Law and Arbitration

Analogies in International Investment Law and Arbitration

Author: Valentina Vadi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1107093317

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In recent years, concerns have arisen in investor-state arbitration with regard to the magnitude of the decision-making power allocated to investment treaty tribunals. This book explores whether the use of analogies can improve the functioning of such arbitration, and how such analogies might be drawn.


International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law

International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law

Author: Stephan W. Schill

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-10-14

Total Pages: 922

ISBN-13: 0199589100

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International investment law is one of fastest-growing areas of international law, but it is plagued by the vagueness of many investors' rights and unpredictable investment tribunal decisions. This books analyses international investment law through the lens of comparative public law to clarify investment treaty obligations and arbitral procedure.


Global Public Interest in International Investment Law

Global Public Interest in International Investment Law

Author: Andreas Kulick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-07-12

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1139510886

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The strengths of international investment law - above all, a strong focus on investor interests and an effective adjudication and enforcement system - also entail its weaknesses: it runs the danger of impeding or even sanctioning the host states' legitimate regulatory interests and ignoring other fields of public international law. How does it cope with public interest concerns such as human rights, the environment or the fight against corruption? At the heart of this book lies a fresh approach towards a general theory of such global public interest considerations in the investment realm. Delineating how and why those considerations matter, and why the current system does not accommodate them properly, Andreas Kulick fleshes out general principles and customary international law as defences the host state may raise against alleged investor rights infringements and promotes proportionality as the appropriate balancing mechanism.


The WTO and International Investment Law

The WTO and International Investment Law

Author: Jürgen Kurtz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781108458252

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International law has historically regulated foreign trade and foreign investment differently. Distinct evolutionary pathways have led to variances in treaty form, institutional culture, and dispute settlement. With their inevitable erosion through the late twentieth to early twenty-first centuries, those weak boundaries have become porous and indefensible. Powerful economic, legal and sociological factors are now pushing the two systems together. In this book, Jürgen Kurtz systematically explores the often complex and little-understood dynamics of this convergence phenomenon. Kurtz addresses the growing connections between international trade and investment law, proposing a theoretically grounded and doctrinally tractable framework to understand the deepening relationship between them. The book also offers reform ideas and possibilities, providing treaty negotiators and other government officials with a set of theoretical insights and doctrinal models that can guide actors in building a justifiable and sustainable level of commonality between the two legal systems.


The Selection and Removal of Arbitrators in Investor-State Dispute Settlement

The Selection and Removal of Arbitrators in Investor-State Dispute Settlement

Author: Chiara Giorgetti

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 9004416234

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The Selection and Removal of Arbitrators in Investor-State Dispute Settlement examines two essential features in investor-state dispute resolution: how arbitrators are selected and removed. Both topics have received increasing scrutiny and criticism, that have in turn generated calls for reforms. In its first part, Professor Chiara Giorgetti, an expert in international arbitration, explains the selection of arbitrators procedurally and comparatively under the most-often used arbitration rules. She then reviews critically arbitrators’ necessary and desirable qualities, and addresses some important and related policy issues, such as diversity and repeat appointments. In her work, she also includes an assessment of the calls to review how arbitrators are appointed, and specifically the proposal by the European Commission to create a permanent tribunal to resolve international investment disputes, the UNCITRAL Working Groups III Reform Process and the rules amendment proposal undertaken by the Secretariat of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes. In its second part, this monograph examines how arbitrators can be removed and reviews first the applicable provisions, under a variety of arbitration rules, to remove arbitrators who fail to possess the necessary qualities. It then also reviews the relevant case-law on challenges. The monograph assesses appointments and removals in a multifaceted and comprehensive way, and includes a critical assessment of the reasons and calls for reform of the ISDS system.


International Investment Law and Legal Theory

International Investment Law and Legal Theory

Author: Jörg Kammerhofer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-05-06

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1108839177

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A theoretical analysis of the structure of expropriation in investment law, investigating the foundations for contemporary scholarship and practice.


International Investment Law and Arbitration

International Investment Law and Arbitration

Author: Borzu Sabahi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9004363033

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International Investment Law and Arbitration: History, Modern Practice, and Future Prospects explores international law on foreign investment: its creation, functioning and evolution. Particularly, this paper presents a roadmap over the historical context within which investor-State arbitration developed. It provides an overview of the main actors, the protections afforded to foreign investors, the content of modern BITs, and the challenges facing the system today.


Contract Interpretation in Investment Treaty Arbitration

Contract Interpretation in Investment Treaty Arbitration

Author: Yuliya Chernykh

Publisher: International Litigation in Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9789004414679

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"As the book clearly explains, there are situations in which questions of contract law need to be examined by investment tribunals - mainly as preliminary or incidental questions, to determine issues such as contract liability or breach of contract, that in turn are assumed as a basis for the issues of investment law in dispute"--


Mega-Regional Trade Agreements

Mega-Regional Trade Agreements

Author: Thilo Rensmann

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-20

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 3319566636

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of "Mega-Regionals", the new generation of trans-regional free-trade agreements (FTAs) currently under negotiation, and their effect on the future of international economic law. The main focus centres on the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), but the findings are also applicable to similar agreements under negotiation, such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).The specific features of Mega-Regional Trade Agreements raise a number of issues with respect to their potential effect on the current system of international trade and investment law. These include the consequences of Mega-Regionals for the most-favoured-nation (MFN) principle, their relation to the multilateral system of the World Trade Organization (WTO), their democratic legitimacy and their interaction with existing bilateral investment treaties (BITs).The book is intended for academics and practitioners working in the field of international economic law.