Essays about: "Investment Protections"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Investment Protections.
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1. Protections Against Direct and Indirect Expropriation - How the United States and the European Union use Sanctions and Bilateral Investment Treaties to Protect Intellectual Property
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrättAbstract : This paper presents an overview of how the United States and the European Union use their sanctions and Bilateral Investment Treaty policies to protect intellectual property rights overseas from expropriation. Both territories’ policies vary, with American rightsholders more capable of protecting their overseas intellectual property through the United States’ sanctions policy; European Union investors, conversely, are more likely to benefit from Bilateral Investment Treaties signed by the Member States and third countries. READ MORE
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2. LET’S SELL DRUGS : How the home-State of an investment can upset investment protections in the cannabis industry
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Recently many States have legalised the production and retail of recreational cannabis, which is already a big business worldwide, and therefore, thoroughly attractive to international investors who would – reasonably – seek to develop their business in cannabis-friendly jurisdictions but, more so than many investments, this one carries with it a certain risk: Many influential and capital-exporting states are reticent to legalise cannabis for themselves and many times even criminalise any and all cannabis-related activities. This work uses this dilema to explore the influence of the home-State of the investment on the legality of an investment, and question the uniletarality of the obligations derived from "Free Movement of Liquid Assets" or "repatriation" clauses, arguing that there is a multilateral obligation to protect the movement of investments' returns and that home-States to the investor must fulfill it by not impeding or upseting the repatriation of liquid assets. READ MORE
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3. Sovereign Immunity from Execution of Arbitral Awards : A Focus on Attaching and Executing Central Bank Assets and 2004 UNSCI
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The past few decades have seen a veritable explosion of investment treaty and other arbitration claims brought against States. Many of these claims have been heard through ICSID arbitration. In comparison to other arbitration frameworks, the ICSID regime has its own self-contained rules for enforcement. READ MORE
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4. Sovereign Immunity from Execution of Arbitral Awards : A Special Focus on Attaching and Executing Central Bank Assets and 2004 UNSCI
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The past few decades have seen a veritable explosion of investment treaty and other arbitration claims brought against States. Many of these claims have been heard through ICSID arbitration. In comparison to other arbitration frameworks, the ICSID regime has its own self-contained rules for enforcement. READ MORE
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5. What are we protecting? - A study of the Swedish regulation of deal protection arrangements
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : The thesis evaluates and examines the effects of the Swedish regulation of deal protection arrangements by looking to the impact of the provision on the Swedish capital market and target shareholders. The foundations of the Swedish takeover regulation are examined by presenting and arguing the relevant provisions in, and relationship between, stock exchange law, corporate law and EU law. READ MORE
