Overview
- Provides readers with the latest developments on why, how and what for States are sued for breaches of their international trade and investment obligations
- Covers recent case law and theoretical discussions in a logical, clear and concise manner
- Analyzes the specificities of statehood and the limitations of the dispute settlement systems to judge sovereign actors as autonomous regulators
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Law and the Global South (ILGS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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International Trade: The WTO and Beyond
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Investment Litigation at a Crossroad
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International Law’s Local Experiments and Global Challenges
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Conclusion
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About this book
This book addresses concerns with the international trade and investment dispute settlement systems from a statist perspective, at a time when multilateralism is deeply questioned by the forces of mega-regionalism and political and economic contestation. In covering recent case law and theoretical discussions, the book’s contributors analyze the particularities of statehood and the limitations of the dispute settlement systems to judge sovereign actors as autonomous regulators.
From a democratic deficit coupled with a deficit of legitimacy in relation to the questionable professionalism, independence and impartiality of adjudicators to the lack of consistency of decisions challenging essential public policies, trade and investment disputes have proven controversial. These challenges call for a rethinking of why, how and what for, are States judged.Based on a “sovereignty modern” approach, which takes into account the latest evolutions of a globalized trade and investment law struggling to put people’s expectations at its core, the book provides a comprehensive framework and truly original perspective linking the various facets of “judicial activity” to the specific yet encompassing character of international law and the rule of law in international society. In doing so, it covers a large variety of issues such as global judicial capacity building and judicial professionalism from an international and domestic comparative angle, trade liberalisation and States' legitimate rights and expectations to protect societal values, the legal challenges of being a State claimant, the uses and misuses of imported legal concepts and principles in multidisciplinary adjudications and, lastly, the need to reunify international law on a (human) rights based approach.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. Leïla Choukroune is Director of the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), New Delhi India, the French National Research Centre (CNRS) Unit on South Asia. Before taking the responsibility of the CSH directorship, she was Associate Professor with the Law Faculty of Maastricht University, The Netherlands, Assistant Professor with HEC Paris, France, Consultant with the OECD, Lecturer with Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, and Researcher with the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC), Hong Kong. She was Deputy Director of the Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (IGIR) and Director of the Advanced Master in International Economic Law at the Maastricht University.
She holds a Doctorate in international law (Summa cum laude – highest honor) from the University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and is a qualified lawyer to the Paris Bar.
Her research focuses on the interactions between trade, investment and human rights and is applied to emerging countries, China and India in particular. She has published numerous scientific articles and authored several books including (with Sangeeta Khorana) Global Health and the Emerging World: An Integrated International Trade Approach, (Springer, forthcoming 2017). She is the Editor of the Springer book series International Law and the Global South, and member of the Editorial Board of China Perspectives.
Leïla Choukroune is regularly solicited as an independent expert on international economic law and business and human rights issues. She is an independent adviser to the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and a Member of the French National Books Commission (CNL).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Judging the State in International Trade and Investment Law
Book Subtitle: Sovereignty Modern, the Law and the Economics
Editors: Leïla Choukroune
Series Title: International Law and the Global South
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2360-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2358-3Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9597-9Published: 30 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2360-6Published: 10 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2510-1420
Series E-ISSN: 2510-1439
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 222
Topics: International Economic Law, Trade Law, Financial Law/Fiscal Law, Trade, Law and Economics