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Title:

Latin America and international investment law : a mosaic of resistance / edited by Sufyan Droubi and Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo.

Publisher:

Manchester University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xxii, 424 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Investments, Foreign--Law and legislation--Latin America.
Investments, Foreign--Latin America.
Investments, Foreign (International law)
Investissements etrangers--Amerique latine.
Investissements etrangers (Droit international)
Investments, Foreign.
Investments, Foreign (International law)
Investments, Foreign--Law and legislation.
Latin America.

Other Authors:

Droubi, Sufyan, editor.
Flores Elizondo, Cecilia Juliana, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Index. List of tables -- List of contributors -- Table of cases -- Introduction: International investment law in Latin America : universalizing resistance / Fabian Cardenas and Jean d'Aspremont -- Part I : The mosaic of states -- 1. Constructing the Calvo Doctrine : claims to universality and charges of particularism / Philip Burton -- 2. Calvo Doctrine and the South American mosaic : members, dissidents and an outsider / Magdalena Bas -- 3. Pluralist approaches to dispute settlement mechanisms / Henrique Choer Moraes and Facundo Perez Aznar -- 4. The Brazilian Cooperation and Facilitation Investment Agreement as a model for Latin America / Leonardo V. P. de Oliveira and Marcus Spangenberger -- 5. Foreign investment and regulatory governance : a critical approach to investment facilitation debate / Luciana Ghiotto -- 6. Domestic courts in the mosaic of states : transformative constitutionalism and fair and equitable treatment / Rene Urena and Maria Angelica Prada-Uribe -- Part II : The mosaic of non-state actors -- 7. Corporations and international investment law in Latin America / Claus von Wobeser -- 8. Sociedad civil transnacional y derecho internacional comercial y de inversiones / Adoracion Guaman -- 9. Latin America, indigenous peoples and investments : resistance and accommodation / Sufyan Droubi, Cecilia Flores Elizondo and Raphael Heffron -- Part III : The mosaic of narratives -- 10. International investment and human rights in Latin America : a quest for balance / Rodrigo Polanco Lazo and Felipe Ferreira Catalan -- 11. ISDS and human rights : a Latin American dialectic / Farouk El-Hosseny, Patrick Devine and Ilan Brun-Vargas -- 12. Inversiones internacionales y el derecho humano al agua : analisis desde una nueva perspectiva interdisciplinaria / Javier Echaide -- 13. Investors' need to obtain social license : a sustainable development argument in investor-state dispute settlement / Sebastian Preller-Borquez -- 14. International investment law in Latin America : universalizing resistance / Fabian Cardenas and Jean d'Aspremont -- Index.

Series:

Melland Schill perspectives on international law

ISBN:

9781526155078
1526155079

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1281652097

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)