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| Author | : Stefanie Schacherer |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 473 |
| Release | : 2021-08-24 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 900446588X |
Sustainable Development in EU Foreign Investment Law offers a clear and convincing assessment of how the EU contributes to the ongoing debate on sustainable development integration in international investment agreements.
| Author | : Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger |
| Publisher | : Kluwer Law International B.V. |
| Total Pages | : 978 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9041131663 |
Sustainable development, as defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development, is "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." More specifically, sustainable development is a process of change that seeks to improve the collective quality of life by focusing on economically, socially, and environmentally sound projects that are viable in the long-term. Sustainable development requires structural economic change and the foundation of that change is investment. In developing nations with low levels of domestic savings, investment predictably comes from abroad in the form of foreign direct investment. A large and ever expanding number of international investment agreements are in place to govern these transactions. While these accords seek to foster development while mitigating the risk involved in these types investments, many questions remain unresolved. This highly insightful book reflects the contributions of a variety of world renowned experts each of which is designed to provide the reader with valuable perspective on recent developments in investment law negotiations and jurisprudence from a sustainable development law perspective. It offers answers to pertinent questions concerning advancements in investment law, including the negotiation of numerous regional and bilateral agreements as well as the increasing number of disputes resolved in the World Bank's International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), from different developed and developing country perspectives. It lays out future directions for new treaty negotiations and dispute settlement proceedings, as well as ongoing investment promotion efforts, against a background of rapidly evolving international relationships between economic, environment and development law. It focuses on key issues in investment laws which have emerged as priorities in the negotiation of bilateral and regional investment agreements, and have been clarified through recent decisions of the ICSID and other arbitral panel awards.
| Author | : Vivian Kube |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2019-08-02 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 3030206076 |
This book demonstrates how human rights obligations of the EU foreign constitution can be operationalized in the realm of international economic regulation. The content is divided into three major parts. The first outlines the legal foundations needed for the EU to become a shaper of international investment law, which include the general principles and objectives of EU external policies, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, international human rights and the international investment competences of the EU. The second part demonstrates the current international investment regime’s incompatibility with human rights interests, while the third analyzes two mechanisms stemming from trade Law – ex-ante human rights impact assessments and civil society monitoring bodies – and explores whether they could mitigate the current inequalities in the protection of rights. The potential of these mechanisms, the book argues, lies in their capacity to ensure a comprehensive assessment of all interests at stake, and to empower traditionally marginalized rights-holders to make, shape and contest the international investment regime.
| Author | : Clair Gammage |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1788971043 |
Sustainable development remains a high priority in international politics, as governments seek new methods of managing the consumption of resources while maintaining national economic growth. This timely book explores how the contours and facets of sustainability shape international laws and regulations that govern trade, investment and finance.'
| Author | : Nico J. Schrijver |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 749 |
| Release | : 2004-08-10 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9047406702 |
'This masterly written collection, from many experts, focuses on the efforts of policy makers, as well as regional and national interest groups, to invoke International Law as the tool for realizing the objectives of sustainable development. The authors provide a rich vein of recent State and organizational practices that can be profitably mined by both academics and practitioners exploring contemporary perspectives.' ASIL Newsletter UN21 Interest Group, June 2005.
| Author | : Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2022-03-24 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0192672762 |
Transforming World Trade and Investment Law for Sustainable Development explains why the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda for "Transforming our World"—aimed at realizing universal human rights and the17 agreed sustainable development goals (SDGs)—requires transforming the UN and WTO legal systems, as well as international investment law and adjudication. UN and WTO law protect regulatory competition between diverse neo-liberal, state-capitalist, European ordo-liberal, and developing countries' conceptions of multilevel trade and investment regulation. However, geopolitical rivalries and trade wars increasingly undermine transnational rule of law and effective regulation of market failures, governance, and constitutional failures. Protecting the WTO legal and dispute settlement system remains essential for SDGs such as climate change mitigation measures and access to medical supplies and vaccines in global health pandemics. Investment law and adjudication must better reconcile governmental duties to protect human rights and decarbonize economies with the property rights of foreign investors. The constitutional, human rights, and environmental litigation in Europe enhances the legal accountability of democratic governments for protecting sustainable development. However, European economic constitutionalism has been rejected by neoliberalism, China's authoritarian state-capitalism, and many developing countries' governments. The more that regional economic orders (like the China-led Belt and Road networks) reveal heterogeneity and power politics block UN and WTO reforms, the more the US-led neoliberal world order risks disintegrating. UN and WTO law must promote private-public network governance and civil society participation in order to stabilize and de-politicize multilevel governance that protects SDGs and global public goods.
| Author | : Freya Baetens |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 569 |
| Release | : 2013-08-01 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1107434912 |
Developments within various sub-fields of international law influence international investment law, but changes in investment law also have an impact on the evolution of other fields within international law. Through contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, this book analyses specific links between investment law and other sub-fields of international law such as the law on armed conflict, human rights, sustainable development, trade, development and EU law. In particular, this book scrutinises how concepts, principles and rules developed in the context of such sub-fields could inform the content of investment law. Solutions aimed at resolving problems in other settings may provide instructive examples for addressing current problems in the field of investment law, and vice versa. The underlying question is whether key sub-fields of public international law, notably international investment law, are open to cross-fertilisation, or, whether they are evolving further into self-contained regimes.
| Author | : Ilze Dubava |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Investments, Foreign |
| ISBN | : |
It is acknowledged that sustainable development, which is generally understood as the achievement of an equal balance between economic development, social progress and environmental protection, is a new paradigm of international investment protection law which requires finding a balance between the State's regulatory responsibilities and a foreign investor's interests. This new paradigm is to be taken into account when planning domestic investment policies and drafting future investment agreements. However, this study aims to prove that the sustainable development paradigm, and its consequent extension of protected interests in investment law, is already applicable in the currently existing investment protection regime and in the application of the indirect expropriation standard requiring a reconsideration of the methodologies used for the establishment of indirect expropriation. An investor's protection against indirect expropriation is a basic component of international investment law, and often investors challenge as expropriatory general legislative acts, administrative measures and compliance measures with non-economic international obligations of host States dealing with the protection of non-economic public interests. Investment agreements do not contain a precise definition of indirect expropriation leaving considerable discretion in the hands of adjudicators for deciding what measures do amount to indirect takings in specific cases. Consequently, arbitrators have developed distinct methodologies for the assessment of the existence of indirect expropriation. These methodologies differ regarding their responsiveness to legitimate public welfare objectives that have motivated a State's interference in a foreign investment raising concerns about the capacity left for host States to exercise their regulatory responsibilities. Therefore, the thesis is designed to prove that sustainable development has reached a capacity to guide the contextual and effective interpretation of the indirect expropriation standard. It is claimed that sustainable development forms part of the object and purpose of the investment protection regime within which the indirect expropriation standard must be applied. Consequently, it requires altering perceptions of applicable law and the methodologies used for the establishment of indirect expropriation requiring focus on wider interests than the ones of foreign investors.
| Author | : Lorenzo Cotula |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Foreign investment in agriculture and extractive industries is increasing pressures on land and natural resources. This handbook is about how to use law to make foreign investment work for sustainable development. It aims to provide a rigorous yet accessible analysis of the law regulating foreign investment in low and middle-income countries what this law is, how it works, and how to use it most effectively. Because several legal arenas are relevant to any given investment project, the handbook takes an integrated approach that cuts across areas of law typically treated in separate literatures including investment treaties, extractive industry legislation, land tenure, human rights, environmental legislation and tax law. For both government and civil society, the strategic use of a variety of legal tools is critical in harnessing the full potential of law. This book aims to support government officials in low and middle-income countries in their management of foreign investment for sustainable development, and to support civil society efforts to influence decisions and hold government and investors to account --
| Author | : Manjiao Chi |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2017-10-10 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1317284224 |
The current international investment law system is insufficiently compatible with sustainable development. To better address sustainable development concerns associated with transnational investment activities, international investment agreements should be made more compatible with sustainable development. Integrating Sustainable Development in International Investment Law presents an important systematic study of the issue of sustainable development in the international investment law system, using conceptual, normative and governance perspectives to explore the challenges and possible solutions for making international investment law more compatible with sustainable development. Chi suggests that to effectively address the sustainable development concerns associated with transnational investment activities, the international investment agreements system should be reformed. Such reform should feature redesigning the provisions of the agreements, improving the structure of international investment agreements, strengthening the function of soft law, engaging non-state actors and enhancing the dispute settlement mechanism. The book is primarily aimed at national and international treaty and policy-makers, lawyers and scholars. It is also suitable for graduate students studying international law and policy-making.
