inversión | TBI
Vox.eu | 5-ago-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.
Palabras clave:
bilateralismo y multilateralismo ,
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
ABColombia | 1ro-ago-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.
Palabras clave:
Colombia ,
derechos humanos ,
Gran Bretaña ,
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
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.
Palabras clave:
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
Global Risk Insights | 25-abr-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.
Palabras clave:
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
VDB Loi | 25-abr-2014
On 25 December 2013, Japan and Myanmar signed their first bilateral investment treaty.
| 12-abr-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.
Palabras clave:
agricultura | campesinos | alimentación ,
Australia ,
China ,
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
| 6-abr-2014
Japanese companies would be able to sue Australian governments under clauses expected to be included in the Australia-Japan free trade agreement.
Supreme Court begins setting rules for review of investment treaty arbitrations in the United States
Lexology | 14-mar-2014
This is the first instance in which the US Supreme Court has interpreted a bilateral investment treaty (BIT).
TNI | 10-mar-2014
Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries.
Palabras clave:
Argentina ,
intereses corporativos ,
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
UE
| 6-mar-2014
For a variety of reasons, including poor management of public perceptions, the administration’s trade agenda is in trouble. Much of the public’s antipathy toward trade agreements can be boiled down to concerns about the so-called Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provision. ISDS enables foreign investors to circumvent domestic legal processes and sue host governments in third-party arbitration tribunals for unfair or discriminatory treatment – described hyperbolically by those fanning the flames of opposition as “running roughshod over domestic laws, regulations, and sovereignty.”
Palabras clave:
CPTPP ,
Estados Unidos ,
intereses corporativos ,
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
