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Global Public Goods, Global Commons, Fundamental Values and International Investment Law: the Responses of the New Generation of International Economic Law Agreements and Investment Arbitration Proceedings

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  • The group of five articles forming this special section of Brill Open Law is a selection of the papers presented at the Workshop on “Global Public Goods, Global Commons, Fundamental Values: the Responses of International Economic Law,” organized by the Interest Group on International Economic Law of the European Society of International Law in Naples on September 6th, 2017

  • The articles appearing are all devoted to International Investment Law, the first work being the opening speech to the Naples Workshop by Professor Pavel Šturma on “Public Goods and International Investment Law: Do the New Generation of iias Better Protect Human Rights?”, while the subsequent four essays are all dedicated to the recent case-law developed in international arbitration proceedings dealing with the right to water and the right to human health

  • The relevant clauses concerning the exceptions to investment protection, or the right to regulate of the host State, expressed by the new generation of International Investment Agreements, such as the eu-Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement, the now-abandoned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or the bit models of Norway, Canada, Austria, or the Czech Republic, are considered, stressing their relevance to guide interpreters and arbitrators when having to combine investment protection with human rights

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The group of five articles forming this special section of Brill Open Law is a selection of the papers presented at the Workshop on “Global Public Goods, Global Commons, Fundamental Values: the Responses of International Economic Law,” organized by the Interest Group (ig) on International Economic Law (iel) of the European Society of International Law (esil) in Naples on September 6th, 2017. Global Public Goods, Global Commons, Fundamental Values and International Investment Law: the Responses of the New Generation of International Economic Law Agreements and Investment Arbitration Proceedings

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