Research Handbook on Human Rights and InvestmentResearch Handbook on Human Rights and Investment

2018-12-28 Yannick Radi

The interplay between human rights and investments is a key and complex issue in today’s world. To take stock of this importance and to tackle this complexity, this Research Handbook offers a unique multi-faceted approach.

Author: Yannick Radi

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781782549123

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The interplay between human rights and investments is a key and complex issue in today’s world. To take stock of this importance and to tackle this complexity, this Research Handbook offers a unique multi-faceted approach. It gathers in-depth contributions which focus on the interplay between human rights and investments in various international legal regimes, economic sectors and regions. It also provides thorough analyses of the various types of accountability that may result from the activities of multinational corporations in relation to human rights. This Research Handbook is intended for practitioners, policy-makers, academics and students eager to understand the interaction between human rights and investments in all its dimensions.

Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Investment LawResearch Handbook on Intellectual Property and Investment Law

2020-06-26 Christophe Geiger

This innovative Research Handbook explores the complex and controversial interactions between intellectual property (IP) and investment law.

Author: Christophe Geiger

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788977821

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This innovative Research Handbook explores the complex and controversial interactions between intellectual property (IP) and investment law. In light of recent developments at national, European and international levels, the chapters critically examine the legitimacy of current practices with regard to the social function of IP rights and the regulatory autonomy of States to undertake measures in the public interest.

Research Handbook on Environment and Investment LawResearch Handbook on Environment and Investment Law

2019 Kate Miles

The Research Handbook on Environment and Investment Law examines one of the most dynamic areas of international law: the interaction between international investment law and environmental law and policy.

Author: Kate Miles

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781784714635

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The Research Handbook on Environment and Investment Law examines one of the most dynamic areas of international law: the interaction between international investment law and environmental law and policy. The Research Handbook takes a thematic approach, analysing key issues in the environment–investment nexus, such as freshwater resources, climate, biodiversity, biotechnology and sustainable development. It also includes sections which explore regional experiences and address practice and procedure, and offers innovative approaches and critical perspectives, including the interface between foreign investment and the environment with human rights, gender, indigenous peoples, and economics.

Research Handbook on Foreign Direct InvestmentResearch Handbook on Foreign Direct Investment

2019 Markus Krajewski

This engaging Research Handbook provides an authoritative account of these diverse investment law issues.

Author: Markus Krajewski

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781785369858

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Increasing international investment, the proliferation of international investment agreements, domestic legislation, and investor-State contracts have contributed to the development of a new field of international law that defines obligations between host states and foreign investors with investor-State dispute settlement. This involves not only vast sums, but also a panoply of rights, duties, and shifting objectives at the juncture of national and international law and policy. This engaging Research Handbook provides an authoritative account of these diverse investment law issues.

Research Handbook on Human Rights and BusinessResearch Handbook on Human Rights and Business

2020-07-31 Surya Deva

Some legal scholars have relied upon the principle to argue that no genuine normative conflicts exist between obligations arising from international human rights law and investment law, given that such obligations can be interpreted ...

Author: Surya Deva

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786436405

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This authoritative Research Handbook brings together leading international scholars and practitioners to provide in-depth analysis of some of the most hotly debated topics and issues concerning the interface of human rights and business. Offering critical insights on prominent strands of research within the field of business and human rights, this comprehensive Research Handbook examines key challenges and potential solutions in the field.

Research Handbook on Human Rights and the EnvironmentResearch Handbook on Human Rights and the Environment

2015-06-29 Anna Grear

treatment, and the prohibition against expropriation without compensation)83 operate to restrict the right of host states to regulate foreign investor conduct, but in most IIAs, such investors have the right to enforce these obligations ...

Author: Anna Grear

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781782544432

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Bringing together leading international scholars in the field, this Research Handbook interrogates, from various angles and positions, the fractious relationship between human rights and the environment and between human rights and environmental law.

Research Handbook on International Law and Social RightsResearch Handbook on International Law and Social Rights

2020-08-28 Christina Binder

Also, the inclusion of clauses containing investor obligations in the area of human rights in investment treaties may, under certain conditions, ... 7 8 See the contribution by Ralph Wilde in this Research Handbook (Chapter 4).

Author: Christina Binder

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788972130

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This comprehensive Research Handbook offers a comparative overview of the history, nature and current status of social rights at the universal and regional level. Tracing their evolution from rather modest beginnings, to becoming the category of rights responding most accurately to the 21st century’s policy objectives of poverty eradication and equitable resource allocation, this Research Handbook assesses the mechanisms used to enhance the implementation and enforcement of social rights.

Research Handbook on Human Rights and PovertyResearch Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty

2021-03-26 Martha F. Davis

by inviting investors in.41 It is critical to understand, however, that the unprecedented investment of capital into ... 44 45 Research shows that in areas where investors move in, housing 392 Research handbook on human rights and poverty.

Author: Martha F. Davis

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788977517

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This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.

Research Handbook on Global Justice and International Economic LawResearch Handbook on Global Justice and International Economic Law

2013-09-30 John Linarelli

The fairness of institutions of global economic governance ranks among the most pressing issues of our time.

Author: John Linarelli

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781782549055

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The fairness of institutions of global economic governance ranks among the most pressing issues of our time.

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital TechnologyResearch Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology

Ben Wagner

This often occurs through investments made either by one's pension fund or one's employer. For example, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) is a pension fund for all higher education educators in the United Kingdom.

Author: Ben Wagner

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781785367724

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In a digitally connected world, the question of how to respect, protect and implement human rights has become unavoidable. This contemporary Research Handbook offers new insights into well-established debates by framing them in terms of human rights. It examines the issues posed by the management of key Internet resources, the governance of its architecture, the role of different stakeholders, the legitimacy of rule making and rule-enforcement, and the exercise of international public authority over users. Highly interdisciplinary, its contributions draw on law, political science, international relations and even computer science and science and technology studies.