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Full-Text Articles in Law
Facilitating Investment Through Iias: The Case Of The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, Stefanie Schacherer
Facilitating Investment Through Iias: The Case Of The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, Stefanie Schacherer
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
As many recently concluded IIAs, the RCEP agreement includes provisions on investment facilitation. Following ASEAN’s “built-in work program” approach, the agreement provides flexibility for RCEP parties to further implement investment facilitation measures. Such flexibility can arguably be an opportunity to set a collaborative framework for investment facilitation in the region.
Preparing Legal Frameworks For Environmental Disasters: Practical Considerations For Host States, Brooke Guven, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson
Preparing Legal Frameworks For Environmental Disasters: Practical Considerations For Host States, Brooke Guven, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Projects in the extractives sector carry risks of lasting, and sometimes irreversible, damage to the environment. Nonetheless, these projects are important for accelerating the economic development of host countries. Governments seeking to mitigate the adverse effects of foreign investment often face pushback from investors that are unwilling to change their practices in order to avert environmental disaster. This report sets forth certain steps that host-governments can take during the pre-investment, operation, and enforcement phases of extractives projects to provide financial and other protection in the context of environmental disasters associated with private sector investments.
Upon comparative review of five Case …
You Say Embargo, I Say Bloqueo - A Policy Recommendation For Promoting Foreign Direct Investment And Safeguarding Human Rights In Cuba, Marcia Narine Weldon
You Say Embargo, I Say Bloqueo - A Policy Recommendation For Promoting Foreign Direct Investment And Safeguarding Human Rights In Cuba, Marcia Narine Weldon
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The United States is the only major industrialized nation that restricts trade with Cuba. Although President Obama issued several executive orders that have facilitated limited trade (and President Trump has scaled some back), an embargo remains in place, and by law, Congress cannot lift it until, among other things, the Cuban government commits to democratization and human rights reform. Unfortunately, the Cuban and U.S. governments fundamentally disagree on the definition of "human rights, " and neither side has shown a willingness to compromise. Meanwhile, although some US. investors clamor to join their European and Canadian counterparts in expanding operations in …
Outcome Report Of Roundtable On Human Rights Impact Assessments (Hrias) Of Large-Scale Foreign Investments, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment
Outcome Report Of Roundtable On Human Rights Impact Assessments (Hrias) Of Large-Scale Foreign Investments, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
CCSI, the Sciences Po Law School Clinic, and the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute recently published an outcome document of a one-day roundtable focused on the opportunities and challenges presented by human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) of large-scale foreign investments. The roundtable, which was held in April 2014 at Columbia University, provided an opportunity for collaborative reflection on the development of HRIAs, as well as on ways to enhance HRIAs as a framework and tool for both human rights advocacy and human rights risk management in respect of foreign investments.
By sharing the outcomes of the roundtable, this document …
Differentiating Among International Investment Disputes, Julie A. Maupin
Differentiating Among International Investment Disputes, Julie A. Maupin
Faculty Scholarship
Can investor-state arbitration tribunals, which exercise jurisdiction over limited claims involving discrete parties, render awards that deliver individualized justice while also promoting systemic fairness, predictability and coherence? The answer, I argue, is a qualified yes – provided that the methods employed are tailored to the particular characteristics of each dispute. Using three well-known investment arbitrations as case studies, I illustrate that investor-state disputes vary widely in terms of their socio-legal, territorial, and political impacts. Significant variances along these three dimensions call for a differentiated approach to investor-state dispute resolution. I outline what such an approach might look like and analyze …
Public And Private In International Investment Law: An Integrated Systems Approach, Julie A. Maupin
Public And Private In International Investment Law: An Integrated Systems Approach, Julie A. Maupin
Faculty Scholarship
Members of the invisible college of international investment lawyers are engaged in a fierce battle over the conceptual foundations of their common legal enterprise. The debate centers on whether the international legal regime governing foreign direct investment is a de facto transnational public governance system or merely an institutional support structure for the settlement of essentially private investment disputes. These attempts to establish the public versus private nature of the regime are misconceived. International investment law deals with both public and private concerns, impacts upon both public and private actors, and crosses over traditional divides separating public law from private …
Where Should Europe’S Investment Path Lead?: Reflections On August Reinisch, “Quo Vadis Europe?”, Julie A. Maupin
Where Should Europe’S Investment Path Lead?: Reflections On August Reinisch, “Quo Vadis Europe?”, Julie A. Maupin
Faculty Scholarship
Relative to the past policies of its Member States, will the European Union’s new comprehensive international investment policy constitute a step forward, a step backward, or a perpetuation of the status quo? Professor Reinisch’s contribution to this volume opens a wide window on the current state of the debate. His cogent analysis suggests that, at present, all three possibilities remain live ones, although some basic contours of a likely trajectory are beginning to take shape. I use his musings as a springboard to investigate two questions which follow naturally from his. That is, in view of Professor Reinisch’s response to …
Transparency In International Investment Law: The Good, The Bad, And The Murky, Julie A. Maupin
Transparency In International Investment Law: The Good, The Bad, And The Murky, Julie A. Maupin
Faculty Scholarship
How transparent is the international investment law regime, and how transparent should it be? Most studies approach these questions from one of two competing premises. One camp maintains that the existing regime is opaque and should be made completely transparent; the other finds the regime sufficiently transparent and worries that any further transparency reforms would undermine the regime’s essential functioning. This paper explores the tenability of these two positions by plumbing the precise contours of transparency as an overarching norm within international investment law. After defining transparency in a manner befitting the decentralized nature of the regime, the paper identifies …
Stepping Stone Or Stumbling Block: Incrementalism And National Climate Change Legislation, Rachel Brewster
Stepping Stone Or Stumbling Block: Incrementalism And National Climate Change Legislation, Rachel Brewster
Faculty Scholarship
This Article examines the effects of incremental domestic legislation on international negotiations to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Mitigating the effects of climate change is a global public good, which, ultimately, only an international agreement can provide. The common presumption (justified or not) is that national legislation is a step forward to an international agreement. This Article analyzes how national legislation can create a demand for international action but can also preempt or frustrate international efforts. The crucial issue, which has been largely ignored thus far, is how incremental steps at the domestic level alter international negotiations. This paper identifies four …
Oversight Of U.S. Trade Preference Programs: Hearing Before The S. Comm. On Finance, 110th Cong., June 12, 2008 (Statement Of Andrew Small, Adjunct Prof. Of Law, Geo. U. L. Center), Andrew Small
Testimony Before Congress
No abstract provided.
Foreign Investment Cycles In Emerging Economies, Amy L. Chua
Foreign Investment Cycles In Emerging Economies, Amy L. Chua
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
On Domesticating Giants: Further Reflections On The Legal Approach To Transnational Enterprise, A. A. Fatouros
On Domesticating Giants: Further Reflections On The Legal Approach To Transnational Enterprise, A. A. Fatouros
Articles by Maurer Faculty
This article continues a line of inquiry begun long ago at the University of Western Ontario, at a time when transnational enterprise was dealt with under the heading of "direct private foreign investment." It picks up and develops certain points made in some relatively recent articles of mine, such as, The Computer and the Mudhut: Notes on Multinational Enterprise in Developing Countries (1971), 10 Columbia J. Transn'l. L. 325; Multinational Enterprise and Extraterritoriality (1972), 1 J. Contemporary Business (No. 4); and especially, Problemes et ethodes d'une reglementation des enterprises multinationales (1974), 101 J. Droit Int'l (Clunet) 495.
Book Review. Foreign Investment: France -- A Case Study By Robert B. Dickie, A. A. Fatouros
Book Review. Foreign Investment: France -- A Case Study By Robert B. Dickie, A. A. Fatouros
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Standard Investment Agreement (Draft Translation), A. A. Fatouros
Standard Investment Agreement (Draft Translation), A. A. Fatouros
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Foreign Investments And International Law By Georg Schwarzenberger, A. A. Fatouros
Book Review. Foreign Investments And International Law By Georg Schwarzenberger, A. A. Fatouros
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Public Money Sources For Overseas Trade And Investment By John E. Loomis, A. A. Fatouros
Book Review. Public Money Sources For Overseas Trade And Investment By John E. Loomis, A. A. Fatouros
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Quest For Legal Security Of Foreign Investments -- Latest Developments, A. A. Fatouros
The Quest For Legal Security Of Foreign Investments -- Latest Developments, A. A. Fatouros
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Gesetzgebung Zur Fӧrderung Auslӓndischer Kapitalanlagen By H. W. Baade, A. A. Fatouros
Book Review. Gesetzgebung Zur Fӧrderung Auslӓndischer Kapitalanlagen By H. W. Baade, A. A. Fatouros
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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