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Protecting the government in investor-state dispute
The Jakarta Post | 28-Jun-2016
The Indonesian government is currently reviewing all its international investment treaties after previously having terminated 20 bilateral investment treaties (BIT).
keywords: ICSID , Indonesia , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform
The evolving international investment law and policy regime: Ways forward
ICTSD | 22-Jun-2016
How to encourage the flow of sustainable FDI for sustainable development? This article examines the state of the international investment law and policy regime and presents potential options for its reform.
keywords: investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform
ISDS - Corporate weapon against public policies worldwide
PowerShift | 16-Jun-2016
The 16 clips of this playlist were produced by members of the S2B network as part of the project "Making EU investment policy work for development".
keywords: investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , video
An interview with Lauge Poulsen, author of Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy
IISD | 15-Jun-2016
Lauge Poulsen is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at University College London. His recent book explains why and how developing countries signed up to investment treaties.
keywords: geopolitics , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , video
Unmasked: Corporate rights in the renewed Mexico-EU FTA
TNI | 14-Jun-2016
The EU and Mexico launch negotiations for a ‘modernised’ Free Trade Agreement. A key feature is the investment protection chapter which grants major multinational companies in Mexico and the EU the exclusive right to challenge democratic decisions.
keywords: EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico
Americanization of the BIT universe
SSRN | 9-Jun-2016
Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (FCN) treaties are more than a historical precursor to international investment agreements (IIA) and continue to influence and inspire modern investment treaty design.
keywords: geopolitics , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
República Dominicana gana arbitraje de inversión por $100 MM
Listin Diario | 3-Jun-2016
El ministro de Industria y Comercio, José Del Castillo Saviñón, consideró histórico el fallo que por primera vez obtuvo República Dominicana a su favor en un arbitraje internacional de inversión DR-Cafta por US$ 100 millones en contra del Estado dominicano.
keywords: corporate interests , Dominican Republic , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
India seeks fresh treaties with 47 nations
The Economic Times | 30-May-2016
India has written to 47 countries to nullify the existing bilateral investment agreements and ink fresh treaties that will make it mandatory for foreign investors to exhaust local judicial remedies before seeking arbitration.
keywords: India , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform
Investment-related dispute settlement: Towards an inclusive multilateral approach
IISD | 29-May-2016
Results from an IISD expert meeting held in Montreux, Switzerland, May 23–24, 2016.
keywords: alternatives , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform
Signing away sovereignty
TNI | 24-May-2016
The Philippines has a web of investment treaties which severely constrain the government’s ability to regulate or close polluting mines, a legal straitjacket that will become even tighter if the EU–Philippines Free Trade Agreement and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) proceed
keywords: actions | resistance , EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Philippines , RCEP