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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465625303321

Autore

Vadi Valentina

Titolo

Public health in international investment law and arbitration / / Valentina Vadi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-10674-1

1-299-27898-1

1-136-25930-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in international economic law

Disciplina

344.03/21

Soggetti

Public health laws

Investments, Foreign (International law)

Dispute resolution (Law)

Arbitration and award

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Foreign direct investments and public health : defining and connecting the two fields -- pt. II. The interplay of foreign investment and public health in practice -- pt. III. Reconciling public health and investor rights in international investment law.

Sommario/riassunto

Is a State free to adopt measures to protect the public health of its citizens? If so, what are the limits, if any, to such regulatory powers? This book addresses these questions by focusing on the clash between the regulatory autonomy of the state and international investment governance. As a wide variety of state regulations allegedly aimed at protecting public health may interfere with foreign investments, a tension exists between the public health policies of the host state and investment treaty provisions. Under most investment treaties, States have waived their sovereign immunity, and