Essays about: "Bilateral Investment Treaties"
Showing result 21 - 23 of 23 essays containing the words Bilateral Investment Treaties.
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21. The Interaction of Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) Clauses With Dispute Settlement Provisions in Investment Treaties : A New Continent to Discover?
University essay from Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The master thesis provides a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the scope of most-favoured-nation clauses, focusing on the application of such clauses to dispute resolution mechanisms in bilateral investment treaty’s (BIT). The ICSID decision in Maffezini was the first in a series to extend the scope of an MFN clause to dispute resolution in such context. READ MORE
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22. The Cost of Uncertainty - The notion of investment in Bilateral Investment Treaties and ICSID Arbitration
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) are entered into by two state signatories wishing to promote, protect and liberalize investments. A BIT protects a private party, that is an investor having made an investment, by allowing for such a private party to address judicial recourse against a state signatory under the Washington Convention (the Convention). READ MORE
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23. The added value of the UN Draft Norms as compared to existing codes on Corporate Social Responsibility and their legal status
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : When the United Nations was created in 1945, states were the only significant decision-makers. Even with the construction of the human rights regime in the aftermath of the Second World War, states were designated as the only duty-bearers who could violate international human rights law. READ MORE
