| Description |
1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in International Economic Law Ser |
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Routledge Research in International Economic Law Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- I Setting the stage -- I European foreign direct investment -- II Development of international investment law -- a European story -- 1 19th century and the first half of the 20th century -- 2 After 1945 -- the early beginnings of international investment law -- a) Resumption of disagreement -- b) Advent of bilateral investment treaties -- 3 Emergence of investor-State arbitration -- 4 Development in the 1990s |
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5 Recent developments and global backlash -- III International investment law within the EU -- unexpected difficulties -- 1 Intra-EU BITs -- 2 Energy Charter Treaty -- 3 EU investor protection -- 4 European Convention on Human Rights -- 5 Intra-EU investor-state arbitration -- 6 The EU's attempts to assert control over intra-EU investor protection -- II Comparison of the investment protection regimes -- I Introduction -- II Scope of application -- 1 Scope of application of intra-EU IIAs -- 2 Scope of application of EU law -- 3 Interim conclusion -- III Substantive protection |
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1 Relative standards of protection: non-discrimination -- a) Non-discrimination in international investment law -- b) Non-discrimination in EU law -- 2 Absolute standards of protection -- a) Expropriation and compensation -- b) Fair and equitable treatment -- c) Protection of physical security -- d) Free transfer of funds -- e) Interim findings regarding absolute standards of protection -- 3 Protection of contractual undertakings: umbrella clauses -- 4 Interim findings -- IV Procedural protection -- 1 Investor-State dispute settlement in intra-EU IIAs |
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A) Arbitration agreement and choice of arbitrators -- b) Different possible fora and rules of procedure -- c) Enforcement -- d) Review and annulment -- Non-ICSID awards -- ICSID awards -- 2 Remedies before EU courts -- a) Different procedures before the ECJ -- b) Preliminary reference -- c) Remedies available for intra-EU investors under EU law -- 3 Interim findings -- V Conclusion -- III Conflict between intra-EU IIAs and EU law -- I Nature of EU law and its relation to public international law -- 1 Particularity of EU law |
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2 EU's openness towards international law and international adjudication -- 3 Interim findings -- II Alleged invalidity of intra-EU BITs -- 1 Applicability of the VCLT's lex posterior rule -- 2 Preconditions of Art. 59 VCLT -- a) 'Same subject matter' -- b) Intention -- c) Incompatibility -- d) Interim findings -- III Incompatibility of intra-EU BITs with EU law -- 1 Incompatibility found in Achmea -- a) Main proceeding and background to the ECJ's Achmea judgment -- b) Autonomy of EU law enshrined in Art. 344 and Art. 267 TFEU |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000227147 |
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1000227146 |
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