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of modern challenges. First of all, equating investor-State arbitration with depoliticisation of investment disputes …, leaving the dispute otherwise unchanged. Secondly, one critique of investment arbitration questions its adequacy for resolving …
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The case study of investment treaty arbitration provides an opportunity to examine whether and how the invocation of … protection rules. The overall thesis is that conceptual challenges faced by investment arbitration may be illuminated by the …
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The mechanism of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) allows private foreign investors to challenge government measures before an ad hoc international arbitral tribunal. ISDS has been in existence for a long time. Yet recently this mechanism has proven very controversial, notably in the...
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compensation - is far from clear. Furthermore, procedural matters, such as decisions regarding the place of arbitration or the …
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In the investment arbitration Philip Morris v. Uruguay the arbitral tribunal rejected Philip Morris' claim that Uruguay … (IP). The article explores the concept of ‘public policy' and how IP law, WTO law as well as international investment law …, i.e. the legal regimes relevant to IP-related investment arbitration, deal with public policy considerations. The …
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received various and conflicting answers: is investment arbitration a public or a private method of dispute settlement? A key … criticism levelled at investment treaty arbitration is that public interest disputes are decided by a system of private justice …. This article critically reviews the dominant interpretations of investment treaty arbitration as public, private, or hybrid …
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Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains the initial balance of concessions and prevents...
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versus export promotion and use the Bagwell and Staiger interpretation of the WTO principle of reciprocity to provide a … political-legal-economic decision on a WTO-consistent counterfactual to use to implement the formula, and iii) the quantitative … methods they use to necessarily construct the (unobserved) WTO-consistent counterfactual. We examine not only the arbitrations …
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