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

• Autore: Vadi Valentina
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 344.03/21
• Soggetto topico: Public health laws; Investments, Foreign (International law); Dispute resolution (Law); Arbitration and award
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Public health in international investment law and arbitration
• ISBN: 1-136-25929-5; 0-203-10674-1; 1-299-27898-1; 1-136-25930-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792201203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in international economic law.