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Dispute settlement provisions in international investment agreements : a large summary survey
Pohl, Joachim; Mashigo, Kekeletso; Nohen, Alexis - 2012
Investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms (ISDS) are an important component of most International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and have significant influence on how disputes between States and investors are resolved. This statistical survey of a large sample of 1,660 bilateral investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685837
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State-to-state dispute settlement and the interpretation of investment treaties
Gaukrodger, David - 2016
Many governments have expressed concerns about the uncertainty linked to the perceived inconsistency of treaty interpretation in Investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). An OECD-hosted intergovernmental investment roundtable has been considering a range of tools through which governments can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582200
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The balance between investor protection and the right to regulate in investment treaties : a scoping paper
Gaukrodger, David - 2017
There is vigorous debate about reforms to address the balance between investor protection and the right to regulate in the over 3000 existing investment treaties. This paper first notes the growing trend to analyse particular treaty rules rather than treaties as a whole and the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695559
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Addressing the balance of interests in investment treaties : the limitation of fair and equitable treatment provisions to the minimum standard of treatment under customary internat...
Gaukrodger, David - 2017
The fair and equitable treatment (FET) provision has leapt to prominence in the last 15 years as the principal ground of liability at issue in many if not most investment treaty arbitration claims. In debates about the impact of investment treaties on the right to regulate, FET is second only to...
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Societal benefits and costs of international investment agreements : a critical review of aspects and available empirical evidence
Pohl, Joachim - 2018
This paper reviews alleged societal benefits and costs of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) as suggested by academia, governments, business and civil society. It sets out the wide range of issues that diverse actors have proposed in the context of assessing the societal benefits and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821959
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Investor-State Dispute Settlement : A Scoping Paper for the Investment Policy Community
Gaukrodger, David - 2012
Governments are facing an increasing number of arbitration claims by foreign investors relating to important public policies or seeking substantial damages, and many governments are taking a greater joint interest in how such cases are resolved in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454249
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Socially responsible investment : ILA-study group - introduction
Senn, Myriam - 2013
Socially Responsible Investment - in particular Environmental Social Governance issues (ESG) including human rights - is becoming a crucial issue. Although not a new concept, the integration of ESG and human rights factors into investment decisions remains a challenge. Given recent corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790431
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Behavioral international law and economics
Aaken, Anne van - 2013
Whereas the rational choice approach to international law has been widely accepted in legal scholarship and international relations theory, challenges to the rational choice paradigm in economic analysis of international law have hitherto not been systematically explored. Nevertheless,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375487
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The legal framework applicable to joint interpretive agreements of investment treaties
Gaukrodger, David - 2016
around the world. But while a significant number of major recent treaties contain such express provisions, most investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582193
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Chapter 1. The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, C.P.; Crowley, M.A. - 2016
represented 83% of the world's population and 91% of the world's GDP in 2013. We address five questions: Do some countries have …, how liberalized is world trade? Our analysis documents the extent of cross-sectional heterogeneity in applied commercial … policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023444