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Global Public Interest in International Investment Law
Contributor(s): Kulick, Andreas (Author)
ISBN: 1107416930     ISBN-13: 9781107416932
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $44.64  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Law | Securities
- Law | International
Dewey: 346.092
Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6" W x 9" (1.21 lbs) 412 pages
 
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The strengths of international investment law - above all, a strong focus on investor interests and an effective adjudication and enforcement system - also entail its weaknesses: it runs the danger of impeding or even sanctioning the host states' legitimate regulatory interests and ignoring other fields of public international law. How does it cope with public interest concerns such as human rights, the environment or the fight against corruption? At the heart of this book lies a fresh approach towards a general theory of such global public interest considerations in the investment realm. Delineating how and why those considerations matter, and why the current system does not accommodate them properly, Andreas Kulick fleshes out general principles and customary international law as defences the host state may raise against alleged investor rights infringements and promotes proportionality as the appropriate balancing mechanism.

Contributor Bio(s): Kulick, Andreas: - Andreas Kulick is an associate at the public international law and investment arbitration practice group of Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton in Paris and is admitted to the German bar. He studied in Freiburg, Geneva (HEID), Berlin (Humboldt University) and New York (New York University). Dr Kulick has been a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and holds a PhD in public international law from the University of Tübingen. His main research interests are public international law, international investment law and arbitration as well as comparative constitutional law.