The Brazilian CFIA Model As a Mechanism for Enhancing Protection and Respect for Socio-Economic Rights

• Autore: Martes Marina Martins
• Pubblicazione: Belo Horizonte : , : Editora Dialética, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Investments, Foreign (International law); Human rights and globalization
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Folha de Rosto -- Créditos -- PRELIMINARY NOTES ON METHODOLOGY -- 1. METHODOLOGICAL CUTTINGS -- 2. RESEARCH METHODS -- 2.1. CASE ANALYSIS -- 2.2. CFIA MODEL EVALUATION -- 2.3. INTERVIEWS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE PURPOSE OF INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS -- 1.1. A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW -- 1.2. INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS' MOST COMMON PROVISIONS -- 1.2.1. EXPROPRIATION -- 1.2.2. NATIONAL TREATMENT -- 1.2.3. MOST FAVORED NATION -- 1.2.4. FAIR AND EQUITABLE TREATMENT (FET) -- 1.2.5. FULL PROTECTION AND SECURITY (FPS) -- 1.2.6. UMBRELLA CLAUSE -- 1.2.7. DISPUTE SETTLEMENT -- 1.2.8. EMERGENCY, NECESSITY AND PUBLIC ORDER -- 1.3. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS? -- 2. THE RELATION BETWEEN SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS -- 2.1. WHAT ARE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS? -- 2.2. HOW FDI MAY AFFECT SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS? -- 2.2.1. REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE -- 2.2.2. CASE ANALYSIS -- 2.2.2.1 PHILIP MORRIS V. URUGUAY -- 2.2.2.2. BEAR CREEK MINING V. PERU -- 2.2.2.2. COPPER MESA V. ECUADOR -- 2.2.2.3. CRYSTALLEX V. VENEZUELA -- 2.2.2.4. GOLD RESERVE V. VENEZUELA -- 2.2.2.5. TECMED V. MEXICO -- 2.2.2.6. ARGENTINIAN CASES ON WATER SECTOR -- 2.2.2.7. ARGENTINIAN CASES ON ELECTRICITY SECTOR -- 2.2.2.8. ARGENTINIAN CASES ON GAS SECTOR -- 2.2.2.9. URBASER V. ARGENTINA -- 2.2.2.10. PRELIMINARY CONCLUSION -- 2.3. INVESTMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE COMPLEMENTARY AND REINFORCING MATTERS -- 3. HOW TO PROMOTE PROTECTION AND RESPECT FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS UNDER INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS? -- 3.1. INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS, CSR, AND RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS CONDUCT -- 3.1.1. UN GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON BUSINESS AND HR -- 3.1.2. OECD GUIDELINES FOR MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES -- 3.1.3. CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY -- 3.1.4. HOW CAN STATES ENHANCE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY?. ; 3.1.5. THE DRAFT TREATY ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- 3.2. HOW THE INVESTMENT SYSTEM IS BEING REDESIGNED? -- 3.2.1. UNCTAD'S INVESTMENT POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- 3.2.2. NEW INVESTMENT AGREEMENT MODELS -- 3.2.2.1 SCOPE -- 3.2.2.2. NATIONAL TREATMENT AND MOST FAVORED NATION -- 3.2.2.3. EXPROPRIATION -- 3.2.2.4. FET AND FPS STANDARDS -- 3.2.2.5. EMERGENCY, NECESSITY AND PUBLIC ORDER -- 3.2.2.6. INVESTORS' OBLIGATIONS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY -- 3.2.2.7. DISPUTE SETTLEMENT -- 3.3. HOW PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS AFFECT INVESTMENT LAW? -- 4. DOES THE CFIA ENHANCE PROTECTION AND RESPECT FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS? -- 4.1. A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF BRAZIL'S POSITION IN RELATION TO INVESTMENT TREATIES -- 4.2. THE CFIA MODEL -- 4.2.1. PREAMBLE -- 4.2.2. INVESTORS' PROTECTION -- 4.2.3. EXPROPRIATION -- 4.2.4. INVESTORS' OBLIGATIONS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY -- 4.2.5. DISPUTE SETTLEMENT -- 4.2.6. PRELIMINARY CONCLUSION: CFIAS TEXTS -- 4.3. INVESTMENT OMBUDSMAN AND NCP IN BRAZIL -- 4.3.1. FDI OMBUDSMAN -- 4.3.2. OECD NATIONAL CONTACT POINT -- 4.3.3. PRELIMINARY CONCLUSION: OMBUDSMAN AND NCPS ROLES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II.
• Sommario/riassunto: This research evaluates whether the new model of investment agreement developed by Brazil (CFIA) is a mechanism for enhancing protection and respect for social and economic rights. The research starts by exploring the origins of investment treaties, their development and main characteristics. It examines why investment treaties and socio-economic rights are related, by mapping cases in which investment treaties have already impaired the protection of such rights. The research then analyzes how these two issues shall be jointly handled. It considers international organizations? initiatives to regulate business and human rights and investment treaties? frameworks that foster sustainable development, as well as new investment agreements? models developed by different countries, and then suggests criteria for evaluating whether an investment treaty is adequate from the socio-economic rights standpoint. Finally, this research investigates the CFIA model, brings a brief historical overview, evaluates CFIAs? wording, and examines how some CFIAs? institutional mechanisms consider corporate social responsibility issues. In conclusion, this research asserts that the CFIA model can be a mechanism for enhancing protection and respect for socio-economic rights, but some concerns (particularly related to safeguarding States? regulatory space and providing for stronger obligations to investors and States to protect human rights) need to be addressed.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Brazilian CFIA Model As a Mechanism for Enhancing Protection and Respect for Socio-Economic Rights
• ISBN: 9786525294612
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911008933203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II