Essays about: "Bilateral Investment Treaties"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 23 essays containing the words Bilateral Investment Treaties.

  1. 6. Data as Protected Investment Under International Investment Law

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Yberthia Karlsson; [2021]
    Keywords : International Investment Law; Data localization; Bilateral Investment Treaties; Social Media.;

    Abstract : Over the last decades technological companies have grown significantly and impacted our societies both politically and economically.The significant amount of user data these companies collect and manage have economic as well as political impacts on our societies. READ MORE

  3. 7. Cut off cross-border data flow and international investment law. : A legal analysis of a restriction with an effect equivalent of a ban on cross-border data flow and the fair and equitable treatment standard found in bilateral investment treaties.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Victor Magnusson; [2021]
    Keywords : International investment law; FET standard; Cross-border data flow;

    Abstract : In the world we live in today, the international trade and economy is becoming more and more dependent on data. Data that can be transferred across borders and during the last couple of years there is an observable trend that the cross-border data flows is increasing. READ MORE

  4. 8. Cryptocurrencies as Protected Invesments Under BITs : Is there a BIT of coin Protection?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Hesham Aljasim; [2021]
    Keywords : Cryptocurrencies; Bilateral Investment Treaties; Foreign investments; Protected Investment;

    Abstract : This research paper addresses the issue whether cryptocurrencies are protected investments under  bilateral investment treaties (BITs). Through BITs a host state has a responsibility to protect the investments of the nationals of the other contracting state to the treaty. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Relationship Between International Investment Arbitration and Environmental Protection: Charting the Inherent Shortcomings

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Tina Asgharian; [2020]
    Keywords : public; international; law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Approximately 3000 international investment agreements (IIAs), mostly bilateral investment treaties, have been designed since the 1960’s to promote and protect foreign investment across the world. In case of a dispute, the agreements provide for investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in an arbitration tribunal. READ MORE

  6. 10. The compatibility of ISDS clauses in intra-EU disputes with EU law - An analysis of the extent of application of the Achmea judgement on bilateral and multilateral investment treaties

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Michelle Rinaldo Iversen; [2019]
    Keywords : EU Law; International Investment Law; Achmea judgement; ISDS provisions; ISDS clauses; ISDS mechanism; bilateral investment treaties; Energy Charter Treaty; international law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Within the area of international investment law investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses are commonly used in order to provide investment protection. The ISDS mechanism can be described as a system under which an investor can arbitrate a dispute against a host state, based on an investment agreement concluded between the host state and the national state of the investor. READ MORE