In the last years, the law of international investment protection has increasingly caught the attention of international lawyers, both practitioners and academics. In this regard, two related but often not comprehensively covered aspects are relevant: arbitral proceedings and awards on the one side, and individual commercial interests of enterprises which are engaged in foreign direct investment or international portfolio investment on the other. The applicable law in order to protect these commercial interests is both, of an international and national character, and concerns a broad range of issues. The same is true with regard to applicable procedural and substantive law in arbitral proceedings. It is the central aim of the present volume to try to merge the different perspective on international investment protection law, i.e., not only to focus on specific questions of investment arbitration, but also to cover other legal aspects being of interest to investors, and home as well as host states with regard to foreign direct investment. Moreover, not only the law as it stands, but also possible future developments are discussed.The papers being published in this volume have been presented by experts from academia and private and governmental practice at conferences organized by the Transnational Economic Law Research Center (TELC) at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
Table of contents
Christian Bindl: Investitionsschutzrechtliche Sicherungsmechanismen bei Public-Private-Partnership-Projekten Tillmann Rudolf Braun: Die Investitionsschutzpolitik der Bundesregierung Tillmann Rudolf Braun: Investment Protection under WTO Law - New Developments in the Aftermath of Cancún Marius Emberland: The European Convention on Human Rights as a Means for the Protection of Foreign Investment: A Look at Sovtransavto Holding v. Ukraine Alfred Escher: Investitionsschiedsverfahren: Grundstrukturen und aktuelle Herausforderungen Dr. Richard Happ: Zuständigkeit des Investitionsschiedsgerichts für vertragliche Ansprüche? Karoline Kampermann: Einschränkung der staatlichen Steuersouveränität durch Investitionsschutzrecht - aktuelle Entwicklungen Michael Kerling: Effektivität von Investitionsschutzverfahren aus Sicht der Industrie Ulrich Klemm: Die Bedeutung des Investitionsschutzrechts bei der Planung und Strukturierung eines Auslandsvorhabens Tilmann Prechtl: Die Absicherung von Investitionsprojekten August Reinisch: Enteignung und Fair and Equitable Treatment Christian Tietje: The Law Governing the Settlement of International Investment Disputes - Structures and some Recent DevelopmentsSebastian Wolf: The Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment under selected WTO Agreements - Is there still a Case for a Multilateral Agreement on Investment?