Public international law: economic and trade

Monetary sovereignty is a crucial legal concept dictating that states have sovereignty over their own monetary, financial, and fiscal affairs.

Monetary sovereignty is a crucial legal concept dictating that states have sovereignty over their own monetary, financial, and fiscal affairs.

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade?

Is the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system (DSS) effective?

Is the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system (DSS) effective?

Treaty shopping, also known under the terms of nationality planning, corporate (re-)structuring or corporate maneuvering, implies a strategic change of nationality or strategic invocation of another nationality with the aim of accessing another (usually more favourable) investment treaty for purposes of investment arbitration.

Treaty shopping, also known under the terms of nationality planning, corporate (re-)structuring or corporate maneuvering, implies a strategic change of nationality or strategic invocation of another nationality with the aim of accessing another (usually more favourable) investment treaty for purposes of investment arbitration.

Although domestic law plays an important role in investment treaty arbitration, this issue is little discussed or analysed.

Although domestic law plays an important role in investment treaty arbitration, this issue is little discussed or analysed.

Nation states have long and successfully claimed to be the proper and sovereign forum for determining a country's international economic policies.

Nation states have long and successfully claimed to be the proper and sovereign forum for determining a country's international economic policies.

Investor-state arbitration is a form of dispute settlement that allows foreign investors the opportunity to seek compensation for damages or discriminatory practices, most of which arise out of breaches of treaty obligations by the governments of host countries.

Investor-state arbitration is a form of dispute settlement that allows foreign investors the opportunity to seek compensation for damages or discriminatory practices, most of which arise out of breaches of treaty obligations by the governments of host countries.

Unlike many other trade regimes, the European Union forbids the use of inter-state retaliation to enforce its obligations, and rules out the use of common 'escape' mechanisms such as anti-dumping between the EU member states.

Fully revised and updated from the successful first edition, this title analyses the practice of international courts and tribunals with regard to the valuation of investment claims against states, paying specific attention to the question of interest.

The International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) is the international division of the American Arbitration Association (AAA).

The International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) is the international division of the American Arbitration Association (AAA).

Providing the first comprehensive examination of the key regulatory disciplines included in the new generation of EU free trade agreements (FTAs), this book investigates the EU's supposed deep trade agenda through a legal analysis of these FTAs.

Providing the first comprehensive examination of the key regulatory disciplines included in the new generation of EU free trade agreements (FTAs), this book investigates the EU's supposed deep trade agenda through a legal analysis of these FTAs.

Fully revised and updated from the successful first edition, this title analyses the practice of international courts and tribunals with regard to the valuation of investment claims against states, paying specific attention to the question of interest.

The WTO is one of the most important intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly understood.

The WTO is one of the most important intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly understood.

How has the evolution and transformation of the Common Market affected the legal concept of State aid?

How has the evolution and transformation of the Common Market affected the legal concept of State aid?

How does EU internal market law, in particular the rules on free movement and competition, apply to private regulation?

How does EU internal market law, in particular the rules on free movement and competition, apply to private regulation?

The past two decades have seen a significant proliferation of trade and investment treaties around the world.

The past two decades have seen a significant proliferation of trade and investment treaties around the world.

International investment law is in transition.

International investment law is in transition.

This fully updated second edition of Corporate Accountability in International Environmental Law examines systematically all international sources of corporate accountability standards with specific reference to environmental protection, and elaborates on their theoretical and practical implications for international environmental law.

This is the first volume to comprehensively and systematically study, describe, and theorize the financial obligation created and governed by public international law.

This is the first volume to comprehensively and systematically study, describe, and theorize the financial obligation created and governed by public international law.

Procedural issues are an area of increasing complexity and concern in modern investment arbitration, and one in which very little guidance currently exists.

Procedural issues are an area of increasing complexity and concern in modern investment arbitration, and one in which very little guidance currently exists.

While international investment law is one of the most dynamic and thriving fields of international law, it is increasingly criticized for failing to strike a fair balance between private property rights and the public interest.

While international investment law is one of the most dynamic and thriving fields of international law, it is increasingly criticized for failing to strike a fair balance between private property rights and the public interest.

The regulation of foreign investment represents one of the most topical and controversial subjects in European Union law and international investment law.

Since 1992, the European Union has put liberalisation at the core of its energy policy agenda.

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of global economic governance.

This is the first comprehensive study of corruption in international investment arbitration.

This is the first comprehensive study of corruption in international investment arbitration.

Situated within the context of the ongoing debate about European contract law, this book provides a detailed examination of the European Union's competence in the field of contract law.

Situated within the context of the ongoing debate about European contract law, this book provides a detailed examination of the European Union's competence in the field of contract law.

Over the past 10 years, the content and application of international trade law has grown dramatically.

States reject inequality when they choose to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), but to date the ICESCR has not yet figured prominently in the policy calculus behind States' international economic decisions.

States reject inequality when they choose to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), but to date the ICESCR has not yet figured prominently in the policy calculus behind States' international economic decisions.

This monograph examines the relationship between treaties providing for uninterrupted energy transit and countermeasures under the law of international responsibility.

This monograph examines the relationship between treaties providing for uninterrupted energy transit and countermeasures under the law of international responsibility.

Unlike many other trade regimes, the European Union forbids the use of inter-state retaliation to enforce its obligations, and rules out the use of common 'escape' mechanisms such as anti-dumping between the EU member states.