International Investment Law and the Global Financial Architecture

International Investment Law and the Global Financial Architecture
Author: Christian J. Tams
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2017-02-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1785368885

This book explores whether investment law should protect against such regulatory measures, including where these have the support of multilateral institutions. It considers where the line should be drawn between legitimate regulation and undue interference with investor rights and, equally importantly, who draws it.

International Economic Law and Monetary Measures

International Economic Law and Monetary Measures
Author: Annamaria Viterbo
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781002614

The 20072010 global financial crisis re-opened the debate on the reform of the international monetary and financial system. This well-argued book demonstrates the strategic role of international economic law (IEL) in ensuring international monetary stability and global financial stability. After discussing the current allocation of powers among IEL institutions, Annamaria Viterbo focuses on monetary measures: exchange restrictions, capital controls and exchange rate manipulations. These three fundamental topics are then examined through the lens of a multi-layered methodology, adopting perspectives from international monetary law, trade law and investment law. The author evaluates how the horizontal sectors in which IEL is traditionally divided interact and how conflicts between norms are avoided or solved. Particular attention is also devoted to the outcomes of trade and investment disputes that deal with monetary measures. International Economic Law and Monetary Measures will appeal to international trade law and international financial law scholars as well as law and business students. Legal practitioners and officials working in the field of international economic law will find it a useful reference, as will legal counsel in banks and financial institutions, international investors and multinational corporations.

Principles of International Investment Law

Principles of International Investment Law
Author: Rudolf Dolzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2022-01-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019267241X

This book outlines the principles behind the international law of foreign investment. The main focus is on the law governed by bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. It traces the purpose, context, and evolution of the clauses and provisions characteristic of contemporary investment treaties, and analyses the case law, interpreting the issues raised by standard clauses. Particular consideration is given to broad treaty-rules whose understanding in practice has mainly been shaped by their interpretation and application by international tribunals. In addition, the book introduces the dispute settlement mechanisms for enforcing investment law, outlining the operation of Investor-State arbitration. Combining a systematic analytical study of the texts and principles underlying investment law with a jurisprudential analysis of the case law arising in international tribunals, this book offers an ideal introduction to the principles of international investment law and arbitration, for students, scholars, and practitioners alike.

The Misery of International Law

The Misery of International Law
Author: John Linarelli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2018
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198753950

Poverty, inequality, and dispossession accompany economic globalization. Bringing together three international law scholars, this book addresses how international law and its regimes of trade, investment, finance, as well as human rights, are implicated in the construction of misery, and how international law is producing, reproducing, and embedding injustice and narrowing the alternatives that might really serve humanity. Adopting a pluralist approach, the authors confront the unconscionable dimensions of the global economic order, the false premises upon which they are built, and the role of international law in constituting and sustaining them. Combining insights from radical critiques, political philosophy, history, and critical development studies, the book explores the pathologies at work in international economic law today. International law must abide by the requirements of justice if it is to make a call for compliance with it, but this work claims it drastically fails do so. In a legal order structured around neoliberal ideologies rather than principles of justice, every state can and does grab what it can in the economic sphere on the basis of power and interest, legally so and under colour of law. This book examines how international law on trade and foreign investment and the law and norms on global finance has been shaped to benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of others. It studies how a set of principles, in the form of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), that could have laid the groundwork for a more inclusive international law without even disrupting its market-orientation, were nonetheless undermined. As for international human rights law, it is under the terms of global capitalism that human rights operate. Before we can understand how human rights can create more just societies, we must first expose the ways in which they reflect capitalist society and how they assist in reproducing the underlying terms of immiseration that will continue to create the need for human rights protection. This book challenges conventional justifications of economic globalization and eschews false choices. It is not about whether one is "for" or "against" international trade, foreign investment, or global finance. The issue is to resolve how, if we are to engage in trade, investment, and finance, we do so in a manner that is accountable to persons whose lives are affected by international law. The deployment of human rights for their part must be considered against the ubiquity of neoliberal globalization under law, and not merely as a discrete, benevolent response to it.

Human Rights in International Investment Law and Arbitration

Human Rights in International Investment Law and Arbitration
Author: Pierre-Marie Dupuy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199578184

There is a growing interplay between international investment law, arbitration and human rights. This book offers a systematic analysis of this interaction, exploring the role of principles of justice in investment law, comparing investment arbitration with other courts, and examining case studies on human rights.

World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined

World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined
Author: Alvaro Santos
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-06-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1783089733

World trade and investment law is in crisis: new and progressive ideas are needed. Rules that facilitated globalization and supported global economic growth are being challenged. A system of global governance that once seemed secure is now at risk as the United States ignores the rules while developing countries struggle to escape restrictions. Some want to tear global institutions and agreements down while others try desperately to maintain the status quo. Rejecting both options, a group of trade and investment law experts from 10 countries, South and North, have joined hands to propose ideas for a new world trade and investment law that would maintain global growth while distributing costs and benefi ts more fairly. Paying special attention to those who have suffered from trade dislocation and to restrictions that have hampered innovative growth strategies in developing countries, they outline a progressive trade and investment law agenda in World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined.

International Investment Law and the Global Financial Architecture

International Investment Law and the Global Financial Architecture
Author: Christian J. Tams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN:

The global crises of the early 21st century that have tested the international financial architecture. In seeking to ensure stability, governments have regulated financial and capital markets. This in turn has implicated international investment law, which investors have invoked as a shield against debt restructuring, bail-ins or bail-outs. Serving as an introduction to a book project on International Investment Law and the Global Financial Architecture, and summarizing its contributions, the paper maps out the interactions between international investment law and international financial regulation and considers how to conceptualize and draw the line between legitimate financial regulation and re-regulation for the protection of macro-economic stability and undue interference with investor rights.

International Law in Financial Regulation and Monetary Affairs

International Law in Financial Regulation and Monetary Affairs
Author: Thomas Cottier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199668191

Analysing the emerging international legal framework governing financial institutions and markets, including monetary policies and monetary regulation, this book addresses the cross border issues that arise within this area. It highlights the lack of formal international law present, and shows how this contributed to the global financial crisis.

International Development Law

International Development Law
Author: Rumu Sarkar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2009-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0195398289

This theoretical and practical overview of the international legal architecture between developing countries and advanced nations is divided into two parts, the first providing a theoretical overview of the philosophical implications of international development law principles; the second deals with international financial architecture.

Arbitration Under International Investment Agreements

Arbitration Under International Investment Agreements
Author: Katia Yannaca-Small
Publisher:
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0195340698

Arbitration Under International Investment Agreements: A Guide to the Key Issues provides a comprehensive analysis of the main issues that arise in investor-state arbitration. The contributing authors take the reader through the intricacies of this procedure before analyzing the main jurisdictional and substantive issues that confront arbitrators. The book concludes with a reflection on the role of precedent in investment arbitration. A diverse group of renowned experts in the field provide comprehensive coverage, making Arbitration Under International Investment Agreements a valuable resource for anyone working in or studying this field of law.