General International Law in International Investment Law: A Commentary

Waibel, Michael

Kulick, Andreas

Foreign & International Law

Oxford University Press

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of global economic governance. Public interest in international investment arbitration is growing and some developed and developing countries are beginning to revisit their investment treaty policies. The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime synthesises and advances the growing literature on this subject by integrating legal, economic, and political perspectives. Based on an analysis of the substantive and procedural rights conferred by investment treaties, it asks four basic questions. What are the costs and benefits of investment treaties for investors, states, and other stakeholders? Why did developed and developing countries sign the treaties? Why should private arbitrators be allowed to review public regulations passed by states? And what is the relationship between the investment treaty regime and the broader regime complex that governs international investment? Through a concise, but comprehensive, analysis, this book fills in some of the many "blind spots" of academics from different disciplines, and is the first port of call for lawyers, investors, policy-makers, and stakeholders trying to make sense of these critical instruments governing investor-state relations.

The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

Business & Money

Bonnitcha, Jonathan

Skovgaard Poulsen, Lauge N.

Economics

International law on sovereign defaults is underdeveloped because States have largely refrained from adjudicating disputes arising out of public debt. The looming new wave of sovereign defaults is likely to shift dispute resolution away from national courts to international tribunals and transform the current regime for restructuring sovereign debt. Michael Waibel assesses how international tribunals balance creditor claims and sovereign capacity to pay across time. The history of adjudicating sovereign defaults internationally over the last 150 years offers a rich repository of experience for future cases: US state defaults, quasi-receiverships in the Dominican Republic and Ottoman Empire, the Venezuela Preferential Case, the Soviet repudiation in 1917, the League of Nations, the World War Foreign Debt Commission, Germany's 30-year restructuring after 1918 and ICSID arbitration on Argentina's default in 2001. The remarkable continuity in international practice and jurisprudence suggests avenues for building durable institutions capable of resolving future sovereign defaults.

Sovereign Defaults before International Courts and Tribunals (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Series Number 81)

Cambridge University Press

<p>International law on sovereign defaults is underdeveloped because States have largely refrained from adjudicating disputes arising out of public debt. The looming new wave of sovereign defaults is likely to shift dispute resolution away from national courts to international tribunals and transform the current regime for restructuring sovereign debt. Michael Waibel assesses how international tribunals balance creditor claims and sovereign capacity to pay across time. The history of adjudicating sovereign defaults internationally over the last 150 years offers a rich repository of experience for future cases: US state defaults, quasi-receiverships in the Dominican Republic and Ottoman Empire, the Venezuela Preferential Case, the Soviet repudiation in 1917, the League of Nations, the World War Foreign Debt Commission, Germany's 30-year restructuring after 1918 and ICSID arbitration on Argentina's default in 2001. The remarkable continuity in international practice and jurisprudence suggests avenues for building durable institutions capable of resolving future sovereign defaults.</p>

Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal

Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, this book addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism. This collection critically interrogates both the ways in which 'informal' and 'formal' are put to work in the governing and politicisation of cities, and their conceptual strengths and weaknesses. It does so by focusing on a wide variety of topics, from specific forms of housing and labour often traditionally linked to the formal/informal divide, to urban political negotiations, cultural practices, and ways of being in the city. The book takes stock of and reflects on how contemporary urban informality/formality relations are being produced and are/might be understood, and puts forward an enlarged and comprehensive understanding of urban informality.

Urban Informalities

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

Sovereign Defaults Before International Courts And Tribunals

Substantive Protections in International Investment Law: Analysis, Cases and Commentary

Zamir, Noam

Hart Publishing

In dieser Arbeit wird die Stadtentwicklung Hanois von den Anfängen bis heute als Abfolge historischer und gegenwärtiger Transformationsprozesse dargestellt. Insbesondere wird auf die Auswirkungen des jüngsten Transformationsprozesses, unter dem Namen Doi Moi bekannt, eingegangen. Ähnlich wie in vielen osteuropäischen Städten sind von jeweils unterschiedlichen Akteursgruppen initiierte transformationstypische Prozesse wie ein Gründungsboom im Privatsektor, nachholende Citybildung, Internationalisierung sowie mit sozial und räumlicher Segregation einhergehende Verdrängungsprozesse feststellbar. Die Arbeit befasst sich aus einem mikroanalytischen Blickwinkel heraus mit den Auswirkungen des Transformationsprozesses insbesondere auf die Innenstadt Hanois.

Stadtentwicklung von Hanoi: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Auswirkungen der Doi Moi Reformen auf den Handel im innerstädtischen ... Universitaires Européennes) (German Edition)

History

Americas

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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