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You Don’T Have To Be Big To Be A Multinational, Karl P. Sauvant Aug 2011

You Don’T Have To Be Big To Be A Multinational, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, “You Don’t Have to be Big to be a Multinational,” letter to the editor, Financial Times, 25 August 2011.


Overcoming Liability For Foreignness, Karl P. Sauvant May 2011

Overcoming Liability For Foreignness, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, "Overcoming Liability for Foreignness,” op. ed., China Daily, 23 May 2011.


Learning From Experience: An Interview With Three Experts, Karl P. Sauvant May 2011

Learning From Experience: An Interview With Three Experts, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Interview, under the title “Learning from Experience: An Interview with Three Experts,” Political Risk Insurance Newsletter, vol. VII, issue 1, May 2011, pp. 1, 4-8.


Yearbook On International Investment Law And Policy, 2010-2011 Jan 2011

Yearbook On International Investment Law And Policy, 2010-2011

Karl P. Sauvant

Today, international investment law consists of a network of multifaceted, multilayered international treaties that, in one way or another, involve virtually every country of the world. The evolution of this network continues, raising a host of issues regarding international investment law and policy, especially in the area of international investment disputes. The Yearbook on International Investment law & Policy 2010-2011 addresses current developments and salient trends in international investment law and policy. the current volume includes a Symposium on the new EU competency and chapters addressing such central issues as essential security clauses, climate change law, land acquisitions, State-controlled entities, …


Reports Of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations Jan 2011

Reports Of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations

Karl P. Sauvant

This comprehensive two-volume work is a collection of determinations from OPIC, the US governmental political risk insurance provider, in the form of its Memoranda of Determinations from 1966 to 2010. This reference work is the first to make the underlying primary material available to the investment law, political risk and academic communities. The authors have made the claims determinations more accessible with the inclusion of headnote summaries for all determinations. The determinations reflect the decisions of OPIC under US and international law and therefore have a significant impact on its future claims determinations. They reveal what types of claims have …


The Evolving International Investment Regime: Expectations, Realities, Options Jan 2011

The Evolving International Investment Regime: Expectations, Realities, Options

Karl P. Sauvant

The transboundary flow of capital directed at establishing businesses is the engine of the world economy. Approximately 3,000 bilateral and regional investment protection treaties worldwide govern this driver of economic globalization. As might be expected, the international investment regime now competes with the World Trade Organization for global praise and criticism. This volume looks at how these treaties and investor-state arbitrations that apply them accommodate the different expectations of various stockholders, including governments, foreign investors and civil society. The volume’s diverse authors focus especially on the views of developing countries and international civil society. They address the extent to which …


International Investment Law In Transition, Karl P. Sauvant, Jose E. Alvarez Jan 2011

International Investment Law In Transition, Karl P. Sauvant, Jose E. Alvarez

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant and Jose E. Alvarez, “International Investment Law in Transition,” in Jose E. Alvarez and Karl P. Sauvant, with Kamil Gerard Ahmed and Gabriela del P. Vizcaino, eds., The Evolving International Investment Regime: Expectations, Realities, Options (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xxxi-xlii.