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This chapter surveys empirically the broad features of trade policy in goods for 31 major economies that collectively represented 83% of the world's population and 91% of the world's GDP in 2013. We address five questions: Do some countries have more liberal trading regimes than others? Within...
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We provide a synthesis of the theoretical models that study the use of escape clauses, also known as safeguards, in … agreements as incomplete contracts. We also review empirical evidence on the usage and effectiveness of safeguards and other …
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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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