International Investment Law in Latin America / Derecho Internacional de las Inversiones en América Latina PDF Download

Author: Attila Tanzi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004311475
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 899

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International Investment Law in Latin America: Problems and Prospects analyses the trend from enthusiasm to diffidence Latin American countries have recently undergone towards investment law. Experts draw lessons from the Continent’s past experiences while identifying possible solutions to the important challenges it faces. En Derecho Internacional de las Inversiones en América Latina: Problemas y Perspectivas, la tendencia desde el entusiasmo a la desconfianza de los países latinoamericanos hacia esta rama del derecho es analizada, en búsqueda de posibles soluciones a los importantes desafíos que actualmente enfrenta esa región.

Author: Sufyan Droubi
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526155060
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Latin America has been a complex laboratory for the development of international investment law. While some governments and non-state actors have remained true to the Latin American tradition of resistance towards the international investment law regime, other governments and actors have sought to accommodate said regime in the region. Consequently, a profusion of theories and doctrines, too often embedded in clashing narratives, has emerged. In Latin America, the practice of international investment law is the vivid amalgamation of the practice of governments sometimes resisting and sometimes welcoming mainstream approaches; the practice of lawyers assisting foreign investors from outside and within the region; and the practice of civil society, indigenous peoples and other actors in their struggle for human rights and sustainable development. Latin America and international investment law describes the complex roles that governments have played vis-à-vis foreign investors and investments; the refreshing but clashing forces that international organizations, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples have brought to the field; and the contribution that Latin America has made to the development of the theory and practice of international investment law, notably in fields in which the Latin American experience has been traumatic: human rights and sustainable development. Latin American scholars have been contributing to the theory of international investment law for over a century; resting on the shoulders of true giants, this volume aims at pushing this contribution a little further.

Author: José Manuel Álvarez Zárate
Publisher: Universidad Externado
ISBN: 958772450X
Category : Law
Languages : es
Pages : 352

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Esta publicación es el resultado de varias ponencias presentadas sobre la actualidad y el futuro del Derecho internacional de las inversiones en el marco de la II Conferencia Bienal de la Red Latinoamericana de Derecho Económico Internacional (RED-DEI). La Conferencia se llevó a cabo en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú, en Lima, en octubre de 2013, con la memorable organización de Elvira Méndez Chang, directora en aquella época de la Maestría de Derecho Intemacional Económico de esa universidad y el apoyo de Dorotea tópez, de la Universidad de Chile. Algunos de los autores contaron con el apoyo del World Trade Institute (WTIl y de la Secretaría del Estado para Asuntos Económicos Suizo (SECO). La Universidad Externado de Colombia se unió a los esfuerzos anteriores y ahora entrega a la comunidad académica y practicantes de esta área del derecho esta publicación. El Derecho internacional de las inversiones tiene diferentes aristas que son tratadas en este libro. Desde sus relaciones con el medioambiente, pasando por las tensiones con los derechos humanos, las cláusulas de emergencia y el estado de necesidad, hasta los posibles efectos de la retirada de varios países suramericanos del sistema de solu¬ción del Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias Relativas a Inversiones (CIADI). En cada uno de los artículos se siente la visión latinoamericana, desde sus diversas ex-presiones liberales y críticas.

Author: Nitish Monebhurrun
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031493826
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Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Author: María José Luque Macías
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303073272X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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This book offers insights into how international investment law (IIL) has frustrated states’ protection of human rights in Latin America, and IIL has generally abstained from dealing with inter-regime frictions. In these circumstances, this study not only argues that IIL should be an object of contention and debate (‘politicisation’). It also contends that Latin American countries have traditionally been the frontrunners in the politicisation of international legal instruments protecting foreign investment, questioning whether the paradigms informing their claims’ articulation are adequate to frame this debate. It demonstrates that the so-called ‘right to regulate’ is the paradigm now prevalently used to challenge IIL, but that it is inadequate from a human rights perspective. Hence, the book calls for a re-politicisation of IIL in Latin America through a re-conceptualization of how states’ regulation of foreign investment is understood under international human rights law, which entails viewing it as an international duty. After determining what the ‘duty to regulate’ constitutes in relation to the right to water and indigenous peoples’ right to lands based on human rights doctrine, the book analyses the extent to which Latin American countries are currently re-politicising IIL through an articulation of this international duty, and arbitral tribunals’ responses to their argumentative strategies. Based on these findings, the book not only proposes investment treaties’ reform to anchor the ‘duty to regulate’ paradigm in IIL, and in the process, to induce tribunals’ engagement with human rights arguments when they come to underpin respondent states’ defences in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). In addition, drawing upon the (now likely defunct) idea of creating a regional ISDS tribunal, the book briefly reflects on options available to such a tribunal in terms of dealing with troubling normative/institutional interactions between regimes during ISDS proceedings.

Author: Jonathan C. Hamilton
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004202498
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 647

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This volume provides a unique country-by-country discussion of legal protections and dispute resolution/arbitration relating to foreign investment in Latin America.

Author: Nitish Monebhurrun
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783031493812
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The book brings to light how Latin American states have traditionally stood before the field of International Investment Law and Arbitration. It delves into their posture of resistance to critically examine how their perspective has gradually changed and how they have adapted and molded their investment agreements so as not to leave their position as players in the field of International Investment Law. Many Latin American states have appeared as defendants before international investment tribunals and some of these, like Venezuela, Bolivia or Ecuador, have denounced their international investment agreements. Deeming the law field as imbalanced, they have looked for alternatives to continue providing legal protection to foreign investors while protecting their right to regulate in the name of public interest. Some interesting investment agreements models, sometimes of a different ilk, have consequently flourished and have arrested the attention of those studying or working with international investment law. The main objective of this book is to critically discuss how Latin American states have accepted, resisted, or adapted themselves to international investment law and arbitration. Accordingly, the general connection between these states and international investment law are explained in an introduction which examines the general trends as per which Latin American states have offered a legal protection to foreign investments. The first part enters the merits of where international investment law and arbitration stand in some Latin American states whereby the experience of Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and Uruguay are discussed. The following parts explain the trends in international investment law and arbitration in Latin America. These trends are namely related to dispute settlement and governance, to the connection between investment law and human rights and finally to regionalization. In these parts, the experience of states like Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico are perused.

Author: José Manuel Álvarez Zárate
Publisher: U. Externado de Colombia
ISBN: 9587907043
Category : Law
Languages : es
Pages : 90

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Una de las áreas del derecho internacional que ha contado con mayor desarrollo en los últimos 30 años ha sido el derecho de las inversiones. En este lapso de tiempo se han publicado cientos de trabajos académicos sobre la materia en inglés y español, pero en este último idioma aún no había un libro que condensara los fundamentos de forma completa. Este libro trata de llenar ese vacío y presenta el desarrollo actual de las normas y principios del derecho internacional de inversiones, las problemáticas que de allí se derivan y que son cada vez más relevantes para los países en el ámbito del derecho internacional. En este trabajo presentamos los debates, no solo desde lo teórico y abstracto, sino los efectos que tienen sobre los países algunas de sus conductas. A pesar de considerarse un tema desconocido para la mayoría, desde principio del siglo XXI adquirió cierta notoriedad y llamó la atención entre los profesionales, académicos y estudiantes.

Author: Fabio Morosini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108117651
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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This book shows how the current reform in investment regulation is part of a broader attempt to transform the international economic order. Countries in the North and South are currently rethinking how economic order should be constituted in order to advance their national interests and preferred economic orientation. While some countries in the North seek to create alternative institutional spaces in order to promote neoliberal policies more effectively, some countries in the South are increasingly skeptical of this version of economic order and are experimenting with alternative versions of legal ordering that do not always sit well with mainstream versions promoted by the North. While we recognize that there are differences in approaches to the investment regimes proposed by countries in the South, we identify commonalities that could function as the founding pillars of an alternative economic order.

Author: Hélène Ruiz Fabri
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509929053
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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Written by leading experts in the field, this collection offers a critical and comparative analysis of the existing case law on international investment law. The book makes a topical contribution to the existing literature, showing most notably that: (1) international investment law has a longer history than that generally considered and that this history is fundamental to understanding its development; (2) international investment law is crafted today by a large number of actors. These include not only investment arbitrators, but also a variety of international and national courts and tribunals; and (3) the literature and case law in languages other than English and from different legal cultures is essential to grasp the essence of the development of the topic. This book brings together more than 40 experts from different countries and legal traditions and combines conceptual analysis and archival investigation of landmark case law to provide the reader with a fresh and innovative understanding of the breadth of international investment law.