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Role of sustainable development in Bilateral Investment Treaties : recent trends and developments

Levashova, Yulia - In: Journal of sustainable finance & investment 1 (2011) 3/4, pp. 222-229

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Law's Laboratory : Developing International Law on Investment Protection as Common Law

Sourgens, Frederic G. - 2014

This Article posits that international law on investment protection develops as a common law through adjudication of investor-state disputes. It reviews the three prevalent theories on the development of international law on investment protection. These three theories are (a) that investor-state...

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Non-Signatories and Abuse of Corporate Structure in International Commercial Arbitration

Daujotas, Rimantas - 2012

Modern practice of international business requires companies to structure their corporate form into one which would be advantageous and safe for the management, growth and sustainability of business. However, when corporate structuring is used to avoid obligations of the company, the latter may...

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The Diversity Challenge : Exploring the 'Invisible College' of International Arbitration

Franck, Susan; Freda, James; Lavin, Kellen; Lehmann, … - 2015

how development status was defined, developing world arbitrators accounted for fifteen to twenty percent of arbitrators …; and (4) for all measures used to analyze development status, arbitrators from the developing world received a … statistically lower number of appointments than their developed world counterparts. Recognizing the data revealed diversity in …

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Investment treaties as corporate law : shareholder claims and issues of consistency

Gaukrodger, David - 2013

Claims by company shareholders seeking damages from governments for so-called "reflective loss" now make up a substantial part of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) caseload. (Shareholders’ reflective loss is incurred as a result of injury to “their” company, typically a loss in...

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Bilateral investment treaties and sustainable development

Gazzini, Tarcisio - In: The journal of world investment & trade : law, … 15 (2014) 5/6, pp. 929-963

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Constructing investor rights? : why some states (fail to) terminate bilateral investment treaties

Calvert, Julia - In: Review of international political economy : RIPE 25 (2018) 1, pp. 75-97

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Brazil and Disputes with Foreign Investors

Kleinheisterkamp, Jan - 2015

This article in Portuguese language traces the roots of the Brazilian resistance against international arbitration as a means for settling disputes with foreign investors. It sketches how all bilateral treaties on the protection of foreign investments signed by the Brazilian government have...

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Environmental Concerns in International Investment Agreements : A Survey

Gordon, Kathryn - 2011

International investment agreements define State commitments on investment protection, but also shed light on how these commitments are to be integrated with other public policy objectives. Investment protection in the context of environmental regulation has been a frequent source of controversy...

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Do Trade and Investment Agreements Lead to More FDI? Accounting for Key Provisions Inside the Black Box

Berger, Axel - 2011

The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI. Most empirical studies ignore the actual content of BITs and RTAs, treating them as black boxes, despite the diversity of investment provisions constituting the essence of these...

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