Sovereign rights in Exclusive economic zones and Continental shelves are functionally limited to the economic exploitation of these zones. Moreover, in the case of disputed maritime zones these sovereign rights are neither exclusive nor necessarily constant. Nevertheless, states are still...

Disputed maritime areas are often sources of valuable natural resources, but they are also often sources of conflict. It is thus important for investors investing in such areas to know the array of investment protection mechanisms available to them. This article examines four such mechanisms...

Die Chinesen nennen es Yidai Yilu IBM ?Ein Gürtel, eine Strasse?. Die Deutschen erinnern sich vorzugsweise an Marco Polo und sprechen darum von der Neuen Seidenstrasse. Es handelt sich um das vermutlich gröt︣e Infrastrukturprojekt der Menschheitsgeschichte, an dem sich inzwischen mehr als...