investment | BITs
IISD | 9-Apr-2021
For many people affected by resource extraction, it is the prevailing legal regime that dis-embeds and disintegrates, because investment treaties can protect ventures that upend their lives with little scope for voice or redress.
keywords:
from the movements ,
human rights ,
indigenous peoples ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
land ,
mining ,
natural resources
Investment Monitor | 8-Apr-2021
From colonisation to investor-state dispute settlements, rich countries have sought to exploit and influence their poorer counterparts for centuries, but how did globalisation in its current form come to be?
La Jornada | 8-Apr-2021
Las obligaciones de los Estados en los TBI. ¿Qué implica «compensar» a las empresas cuando las regulaciones o políticas en favor del interés público y nacional afectan sus ganancias esperadas?
IISD | 8-Apr-2021
Pour de nombreuses personnes affectées par l’extraction des ressources, le régime juridique désintègre, car les traités d’investissement peuvent protéger des projets qui bouleversent leur vies, leur laissant peu de chance de se faire entendre.
keywords:
from the movements ,
human rights ,
indigenous peoples ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
land ,
mining ,
natural resources
Investment Monitor | 6-Apr-2021
Investment treaties largely replaced colonial gunboats as a way to continue to exploit the resources of foreign countries.
keywords:
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
The Mint | 1-Apr-2021
The overreach on display in the aggressive use of ISDS lawsuits by multinational corporations is just one part of a broader trend in recent decades in which the ability of states to regulate their economies in their own interests.
IISD | 30-Mar-2021
A pesar de su gran importancia práctica, es curioso que, hasta la fecha, no se le haya dado demasiada importancia a la cuestión de la indemnización (o “daños y perjuicios”) en virtud de los tratados de inversión.
keywords:
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
IISD | 30-Mar-2021
The principles governing compensation are too important to be left to arbitrators. Hundreds of millions—or even billions—of dollars are often at stake.
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investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
IISD | 30-Mar-2021
Les principes régissant l’indemnisation sont trop importants pour que seuls les arbitres s’en chargent. Plusieurs centaines de millions – voire des milliards – de dollars sont souvent en jeu.
keywords:
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Business Recorder | 25-Mar-2021
Pakistan has reportedly decided to scrap most of its existing Bilateral Investment Treaties as these pacts are shrinking the government’s policy space with respect to adopting measures of public interest.
