investment | BITs
Red por la Justica Social en la Inversión Global | 12-Sep-2014
“Llamamiento a la construcción de un marco legal alternativo a los acuerdos internacionales de inversión. Superando la Impunidad de las Corporaciones Transnacionales a favor del interés público”.
Kluwer | 23-Aug-2014
While Indonesia intends to renegotiate its BITs to provide greater capacity to regulate in the public interest, the current Australian government has indicated it will consider the inclusion of ISDS on a case-by-case basis.
Vox.eu | 5-Aug-2014
Despite the failure of the OECD’s MAI negotiations and the lack of agreement to put investment on the WTO’s negotiating agenda, the major source countries of FDI will eventually get close to their objective of a comprehensive web of investment agreements with increasingly stricter investment provisions with those developing countries that compete with each other as hosts of their FDI.
ABColombia | 1-Aug-2014
The UK-Colombia Bilateral Investment Treaty that was ratified by the House of Commons on 10 July 2014 poses grave risks to the achievement of human rights and the successful implementation of agreements currently being made in the peace dialogues between the FARC guerrilla and the Colombian Government in Havana.
TDM Special Issue on "Arbitration in the Middle East - Expectations and Challenges for the Future" | 22-Jul-2014
The volume of international business either in the Middle East or with a Middle Eastern element is increasing and many of the contracts being used provide for arbitration. While arbitration ("tahkim" in Arabic) has long-standing religious and cultural roots in the Middle East, there are a number of differences and tensions between the Western perception of arbitration and certain Islamic legal principles.
Global Risk Insights | 25-Apr-2014
With Indonesia and a growing crowd of both emerging and developed sovereigns gradually changing the calculus of investment protection, investors may have to engage in an across-the-board rethinking of their FDI strategy.
VDB Loi | 25-Apr-2014
On 25 December 2013, Japan and Myanmar signed their first bilateral investment treaty.
| 12-Apr-2014
The Greens and independent senator Nick Xenophon have said the government will face a tough battle if it seeks to ease foreign investment restrictions.
| 6-Apr-2014
Japanese companies would be able to sue Australian governments under clauses expected to be included in the Australia-Japan free trade agreement.
Lexology | 14-Mar-2014
This is the first instance in which the US Supreme Court has interpreted a bilateral investment treaty (BIT).