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Investor-State Dispute Settlement : A Scoping Paper for the Investment Policy Community

Gaukrodger, David; Gordon, Kathryn - 2013

Governments are facing an increasing number of arbitration claims by foreign investors relating to important public policies or seeking substantial damages, and many governments are taking a greater joint interest in how such cases are resolved in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). This...

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Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring : Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice

Coates, IV, John C. - 2014

An important component of corporate governance is the regulation of significant transactions – mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring. This paper (a chapter in Oxford Handbook on Corporate Law and Governance, forthcoming) reviews how M&A and restructuring are regulated by corporate and...

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Investor-State Dispute Settlement : A Scoping Paper for the Investment Policy Community

Gaukrodger, David - 2012

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IMF's assistance : devil's kiss or guardian angel?

Brandes, Julia (contributor); Schüle, Tobias (contributor) - 2007

. Extending Morris and Shin (2006), we consider that the IMF's intervention policy usually exerts a signaling effect on private …'s signaling ability, our results state that repeated intervention is required to bail out a country, where by additional … assistance may induce moral hazard on the debtor side. Contrarily, if the IMF exerts a strong signaling effect, one single …

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Plea bargaining procedures worldwide : drivers of introduction and use

Paolini, Gabriele; Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena; … - 2023

Over the last three decades, plea bargaining procedures have been adopted by a large number of jurisdictions worldwide. However, a comprehensive account of the current adoption and use of such procedures is still missing. We survey 174 jurisdictions, finding that 101 of them have a formalized...

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The Emerging Practice of Global Environmental Law

Yang, Tseming - 2012

Since the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, ecological pressures on our planet have grown more acute. Yet, modern environmental law has also continued to evolve and spread within international as well as among national legal systems. With the paths of international and national...

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The End of Arbitration as We Know It? Arbitration under Attack

Larson, David Allen - 2011

During the past few years arbitration has been under attack. Recent judicial decisions, newly enacted and proposed legislation, and populist sentiments are important and obviously can result in significant changes. But many of the criticisms leveled at arbitration can be addressed and, most...

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Of Rabbits and Rhinoceri : A Survey of Empirical Research on International Commercial Arbitration

Drahozal, Christopher R. - 2011

Although empirical knowledge about the process of international arbitration and its effectiveness is incomplete, a growing number of empirical studies are being published. By expanding the degree of empirical knowledge about international commercial arbitration, these efforts should benefit all...

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Enforcing Vacated International Arbitration Awards : An Economic Approach

Drahozal, Christopher R. - 2011

This article argues for an economic approach to a widely-debated issue in the international commercial arbitration literature: whether arbitration awards vacated in the arbitral situs should nonetheless be enforceable in other jurisdictions. Under this economic approach, parties should be...

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Boxed in? Australia's Plain Tobacco Packaging Initiative and International Investment Law

Mitchell, Andrew D.; Wurzberger, Sebastian M. - 2011

This article uses Australia as a case study to identify the issues that may arise in ensuring compliance of plain tobacco packaging measures with international investment law. It explains how the tobacco industry could use investor-state dispute settlement under Australia’s investment...

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