International Investment Arbitration. A Practical Handbook
Investment Arbitration is a multi-billion dollar venture. It is an area of international dispute resolution, which has undergone tremendous growth in recent years and resulted in the signature of thousands of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) between foreign states and several Multilateral Investment Treaties (MITs). Numerous disputes involving these instruments are resolved through international arbitration. Arbitral tribunals have rendered many awards ordering the payment of large sums of money.
This handbook provides an explanatory introduction into the area of investment arbitration, differentiating it from commercial arbitration and state-to-state arbitration. It examines the legal framework and the general course of an international investment arbitration. In particular, it focuses on the standards of protection in international investment agreements, the concept of jurisdiction in international investment arbitration and the arbitral award, including the notions of recognition, enforcement and execution. Moreover, this cutting-edge publication contains relevant and recent case law in the area and deals with contemporaneous issues such as the ongoing controversy regarding the future of Intra-EU BITs and Free Trade Agreements as well as the link between vulture funds and investment arbitration.
The handbook aims at arbitrators, lawyers, practitioners, academics, students and everyone with an interest in international investment arbitration.
It is written by Johan Billiet in collaboration with Maria Elenora Benini, Cari-Dee Le, Amélie Noilhac and Cecile Oosterveen.
International Investment Arbitration. A Practical Handbook
Investment Arbitration is a multi-billion dollar venture. It is an area of international dispute resolution, which has undergone tremendous growth in recent years and resulted in the signature of thousands of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) between foreign states and several Multilateral Investment Treaties (MITs). Numerous disputes involving these instruments are resolved through international arbitration. Arbitral tribunals have rendered many awards ordering the payment of large sums of money.
This handbook provides an explanatory introduction into the area of investment arbitration, differentiating it from commercial arbitration and state-to-state arbitration. It examines the legal framework and the general course of an international investment arbitration. In particular, it focuses on the standards of protection in international investment agreements, the concept of jurisdiction in international investment arbitration and the arbitral award, including the notions of recognition, enforcement and execution. Moreover, this cutting-edge publication contains relevant and recent case law in the area and deals with contemporaneous issues such as the ongoing controversy regarding the future of Intra-EU BITs and Free Trade Agreements as well as the link between vulture funds and investment arbitration.
The handbook aims at arbitrators, lawyers, practitioners, academics, students and everyone with an interest in international investment arbitration.
It is written by Johan Billiet in collaboration with Maria Elenora Benini, Cari-Dee Le, Amélie Noilhac and Cecile Oosterveen.
Europol, Quo Vadis? Critical Analysis and Evaluation of the Development of the European Police Office
The establishment of Europol was in essence a political decision and to a large extent the agency has remained a political construct. Every political decision represents choices embodying the development of Europol. Choices also have to be made in the legal translation of policy decisions. In her doctoral thesis Alexandra De Moor traces these choices, as they are materialised in legal and policy documents, and makes them subject of analysis and evaluation. The research model she develops for this purpose consists of eras (the pre-Convention, Convention and post-Convention era), clusters (legal basis, objective, competence, tasks, governance and control) and criteria (necessity, consistency, balance and transparency). The three-dimensional model is perfectly suited for a doctoral thesis based on a compilation of peer-reviewed publications (seven in total). This booklet presents the main conclusions, as well as the policy epilogue.
Europol, Quo Vadis? reads like a ‘Bildungsroman’, a coming of age story with lots of ups and downs, and a story with an open ending, as the identity of Europol is still under debate today. The preparations of the new Europol Regulation (after 2013) have started under Danish Presidency (first half of 2012). De Moor wants to fuel the debate on the future of Europol by signaling key concerns and providing useful recommendations. She doubts whether a European Police Office with operational-executive powers (modeled after the FBI) should by definition be the terminus of the development of Europol.
Alexandra De Moor has been affiliated (2006-2012) with the Department of Penal Law and Criminology, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent University (Belgium). Although she is a legal scholar, this publication has a hybrid character, in view of the criminological, political and policy relevance of the subject.
Europol, Quo Vadis? Critical Analysis and Evaluation of the Development of the European Police Office
The establishment of Europol was in essence a political decision and to a large extent the agency has remained a political construct. Every political decision represents choices embodying the development of Europol. Choices also have to be made in the legal translation of policy decisions. In her doctoral thesis Alexandra De Moor traces these choices, as they are materialised in legal and policy documents, and makes them subject of analysis and evaluation. The research model she develops for this purpose consists of eras (the pre-Convention, Convention and post-Convention era), clusters (legal basis, objective, competence, tasks, governance and control) and criteria (necessity, consistency, balance and transparency). The three-dimensional model is perfectly suited for a doctoral thesis based on a compilation of peer-reviewed publications (seven in total). This booklet presents the main conclusions, as well as the policy epilogue.
Europol, Quo Vadis? reads like a ‘Bildungsroman’, a coming of age story with lots of ups and downs, and a story with an open ending, as the identity of Europol is still under debate today. The preparations of the new Europol Regulation (after 2013) have started under Danish Presidency (first half of 2012). De Moor wants to fuel the debate on the future of Europol by signaling key concerns and providing useful recommendations. She doubts whether a European Police Office with operational-executive powers (modeled after the FBI) should by definition be the terminus of the development of Europol.
Alexandra De Moor has been affiliated (2006-2012) with the Department of Penal Law and Criminology, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent University (Belgium). Although she is a legal scholar, this publication has a hybrid character, in view of the criminological, political and policy relevance of the subject.