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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"international investment"”.
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Trade Secrets and International Investment Law
… by bringing claims against those states under investment promotion and protection treaties. While the protection of trade secrets has been noted by commentators, there is yet to be a detailed analysis of the protection of trade secrets under international investment law. To carry out that …
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Constitutionalisation and Institutionalisation Applied to the International Investment Regime : Toward a Uniform, Consistent and Coherent International Investment Law
International investment law has been developing for centuries. During the development process of international investment law, legal norms and principles of international investment law are evolved and shaped as sui generis nature, and separate legal regime as a branch of international law. The …
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Corporate networks of international investment and trade
… and data to better explain complex trade and investment, (and therefore production patterns), in the modern global economy. The first paper advocates the use of network analysis to address the central research themes in the area of international business and economics (IBE). The particular …
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The Need for an International Investment Agency
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:03:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0004426.pdf: 11424663 bytes, checksum: def4d645e92a33ff5049e985aaf0062c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1952
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Rage against the regime: Policy responses to international investment arbitration
… and academic literature is the notion that the international investment regime is experiencing backlash. At the center of this backlash is the belief that international investment treaties unduly restrain states’ ability to regulate in the public interest, most notably by allowing foreign …
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India’s international investment agreements and India’s regulatory power as a host nation
There has been an exponential growth in International Investment Agreements (IIAs), signed by countries to protect foreign investments, in last two decades. These agreements provide broad standards of treatment and give private investors the right to challenge allegedly treaty- inconsistent …
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Customized International Investment Decisions:An Exploration into the Textile and Apparel Decision-making Process
… to realize the full potential of their foreign investments because they lacked a structured decision-making methodology for international investments. The complexity of the global environment is evolutionary due to new laws and regulations such as WTO, NAFTA, CBI, ANDEAN and AGOA. For example, …
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Towards a New Energy Charter: Re-imagining International Investment Treaties for a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition
… attempts to develop a new, more sustainable international energy charter, that is in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement 2015. The thesis adopts a mixed-method approach, integrating historical analysis, doctrinal legal research, critical socio-legal theory, and empirical case studies …
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The state as a shareholder in cases of reflective loss deriving from commercial activities in international investment arbitration
… of the legal position of state shareholders in International Investment Arbitration in case of shareholders' claims for reflective loss deriving from commercial investments. The reflective loss principle refers to direct claims brought by shareholders who have suffered a reduction in their …
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Essays on international macroeconomics : the real exchange rate, income inequality and the international investment position of small countries
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, c1999
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The interaction between public procurement policies and international investment agreements: challenges and legal implications in Kenya and South Africa
Background and context: International investment agreements refer to ‘agreements regarding a State’s treatment of investments made by individuals or companies from another State.’13 According to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), these may be bilateral such as …
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Appropriate comparator in national treatment under international investment law : relevance of GATT/WTO, EU and international human rights jurisprudences
… state of the national treatment provision in the investment treaties has provided limited guidance for the tribunals for interpretation. As a result, there were inconsistencies in the interpretation of national treatment, in particular the question of likeness. This thesis aims to develop the …
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The development of international investment law : lessons from the OECD MAI negotiations and their application to a possible multilateral agreement on investment
<p>This dissertation analyses developments in the international regulation of foreign direct investment (FDI). The international legal framework of investment encompasses numerous binding or non-binding legal instruments, including customary international law, bilateral investment treaties, and …
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Towards an Optimal Legal Framework and Methodology for Quantification and Valuation of Damages in Claims Arising From Breach of the Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard of Investment Protection Under International Investment Law
… least understood and most neglected aspect of international investment arbitration. It involves quantification and valuation of compensation using complex frameworks made up of components that comprise legal and financial elements. Where quantification and valuation is not carried out properly, …
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Perking-up EU actorness through sustainability in foreign direct investments.
… EU legal order, the law of foreign direct investment has evolved from a scattered and limited implied power to an exclusive competence, expressly provided for in the Treaty. International investment law for its part has endured in the last years great criticism due to severely suspected …
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Proteção internacional ao investimento e propriedade intelectual: impacto sobre políticas de saúde e acesso a medicamentos
… is to investigate the eventual impacts that international investment treaties imposes on the capacity of States to implement key public policies to ensure the Right to Health and access to medicines. It aims to understand, more specifically, the risks that certain clauses part of these …
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Rethinking Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reforms
… of the proposed reforms: (1) establishing an international investment court and (2) limiting access to arbitration. The first study will focus on the effect of establishing an international investment court parallel with the current ISDS system by studying the establishment of the Arab …
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Concepts of proportionality in investment protection of patents and access to health resources
This thesis seeks to demonstrate why investment protection of patented health resources is disproportionate and how the disproportionate power can be mitigated. The argument asserts that the protection of patented health resources under international investment agreements (“IIAs”) goes beyond the …
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