Abstract
States conclude investment treaties to promote and protect foreign investment by accepting international obligations that restrict their rights or powers that they have under international law as well as respective domestic law. But have they not gone too far? If existing investment treaties lay down excessive restrictions on the host State’s right to regulate or the ‘right to pursue specific public policy goals’, how to rectify the situation? These questions attract an increasing number of academics, practicing lawyers, governments, international organizations and, last but not least, civil society, as testified by the rich bibliography of the book. Titi tries to answer them in her doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Siegen through an analysis of investment treaties, relevant rules of general international law and investment arbitral jurisprudence.
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Catharine Titi, ‘The Arbitrator as a Lawmaker: Jurisgenerative Processes in Investment Arbitration’, Journal of World Investment and Trade, vol. 14, 2013, p. 829.
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To quote but a few: Catharine Titi, ‘Are Investment Tribunals Adjudicating Political Disputes?’, Journal of International Arbitration, vol. 32, 2015, p. 261; Catharine Titi, ‘Full Protection and Security, Arbitrary or Discriminatory Treatment and the Invisible EU Model BIT’, Journal of World Investment and Trade, vol. 15, 2014, p. 534.
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See the reviewer’s paper quoted in Titi’s book at p. 287, n. 1561.
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For CETA and EU investment law policy, see Catharine Titi, ‘Le « droit de réglementer » et les nouveaux accords de l’Union européenne sur l’investissement’, Journal du droit international, janvier 2015, doctr. 3; Catharine Titi, ‘International Investment Law and the European Union’, European Journal of International Law, vol. 26, 2015, p. 639.
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Hamamoto, S. (2016). Aikaterini Titi, The Right to Regulate in International Investment Law. In: Bungenberg, M., Herrmann, C., Krajewski, M., Terhechte, J. (eds) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2016. European Yearbook of International Economic Law, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29215-1_40
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