Public Participation and Foreign Investment Law

From the Creation of Rights and Obligations to the Settlement of Disputes
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-39765-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 894 g

Reihe: Nijhoff International Investment Law Series

Public Participation and Foreign Investment Law offers a systematic treatment of public participation from the standpoint of the three main sources of foreign investment law, namely treaties, legislation and contracts. It identifies and critically discusses the different forms of public participation that can be found or envisaged in foreign investment law. From this perspective, the book looks at public participation as vehicle to strike a balance between private and public rights and interests.

This book contributes to the understanding of the current forms, level and impact of public participation. It provides indications on how such participation could be enhanced with a view of improving the balance and legitimacy of the legal instrument related to the promotion and protection of foreign investments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Brabandere, Eric

Gazzini, Tarcisio

Kent, Avidan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Public Participation in International Investment Law: Setting the Scene

Avidan Kent, Tarcisio Gazzini and Eric De Brabandere

PART 1

Setting the Scene

2 Exploring the Legal Framework for International Investment

Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu

3 Public Participation and Investment Treaties: towards a New Settlement?

Lorenzo Cotula

4 The Evolving Concept of Public Participation: from Rio to Mauritius

Avidan Kent

PART 2

Public Participation in the Normative Process


5 Public Participation in Investment Treaty Making

Chrysoula Mavromati and Sarah Spottiswood

6 How to Ensure Public Participation in FTA Negotiations? A Critical Analysis of the Instruments Used in the FTA-Making Process

Maria Laura Marceddu

7 Contractualisation of Human Rights and Public Participation: Challenges and Prospects

Youseph Farah and Valentine Olusola Kunuji

8 Public Participation and the Adoption of Investment Codes: Observation of the Mixed Practice from Tanzania

Chris Maina Peter and Saudin Jacob Mwakaje

PART 3

Public Participation in and Public Scrutiny over Investment Projects

9 Parliamentary Scrutiny over Investment Projects: the Case of Tanzania’s Natural Resources Regulatory Reform

Elena Cima

10 The Principle of Indigenous Consultation as a Latin American Regional Custom

Francesco Seatzu

11 Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessments for Foreign Investment Projects: a Canadian Perspective

David A Collins

12 Investment Projects and Conflict: the Two Faces of Janus

Franz Zubieta Mariscal

PART 4

Public Participation in the Settlement of Investment Disputes

13 Public Participation in Arbitral Proceedings

Sondra Faccio

14 Third Party Intervention at the Proposed Multilateral Investment Court

Farouk El-Hosseny

15 Back into the Shadows? Public Participation in the Peaceful Settlement of Investment Disputes through Non-Arbitral Means

Esmé Shirlow

16 Politics of Public Participation in Investment Arbitration

Sophie Nappert and Nataliia Tuzhelia

Conclusions

17 Conclusions

Tarcisio Gazzini, Avidan Kent and Eric De Brabandere

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eric De Brabandere is Professor of International Dispute Settlement Law and Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies.

Tarcisio Gazzini is Professor of international law at the University of East Anglia and visiting professor at the University of Trento and the Geneva Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

Avidan Kent is an Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia.