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Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development

Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development

Name: Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781789908923
Price: 3215.55 HKD
Availability: InStock
Author: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger; Ted Gleason; Sean Stephenson
ISBN: 9781789908923

Edited by Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger · Ted Gleason · Sean Stephenson

Edward Elgar Publishing April 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781789908923
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: April 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This cutting-edge Research Handbook examines how investment law and policy can foster or frustrate sustainable development goals and accords. Expert authors explore opportunities for environmental, social, and economic rules to shape international investment flows, advancing global sustainability and justice.

Featuring contributions from leading professors and practitioners, the Research Handbook analyzes innovative legal procedures including sustainability impact assessment, examines new treaty provisions advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and considers emerging practices in dispute resolution. Chapters evaluate evolving international investment rules in light of recent law and policy changes, outlining strategies for incentivising more sustainable development. Ultimately, they argue that international law can and should guide investment decisions which affect human rights, environmental protection and poverty eradication.

Presenting novel proposals, this Research Handbook is a crucial resource for scholars and practitioners in international investment law, environmental law, human rights law, and sustainable development law. Its insights will also benefit policy leaders in governments, tribunals and international organizations.

Preface xxii; Acknowledgements xxiii; Table of treaties and statutes xxiv; Table of cases lvii; FOUNDATIONS FOR ANALYSIS; 1.
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Ted Gleason and Sean Stephenson; 2.
Contributions of international investment law to the Sustainable Development Goals: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Ted Gleason and Tooba Shahzad; EVOLVING INVESTMENT PROTECTION REGIMES IN LIGHT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SCOPING INVESTMENT RELATIONSHIPS; 3.
Definitions of investment and investors: Stefanie Schacherer and August Reinisch; 4.
Impact assessment of investment agreements for sustainable development: Markus W. Gehring and Christoph U. Priess; 5.
Advances in investment screening under EU law: Steffen Hindelang and Andreas Moberg; EVALUATING INVESTMENT LAW PRINCIPLES; 6.
Full protection and security and environmental considerations: Ulyana Bardyn and Levon Golendukhin; 7.
Public interest measures, expropriation and sustainable development: Ted Gleason; 8.
Proportionality, standards of investment protection, and sustainable development: Gebhard Bucheler and Eric Belgorodski; 9.
Substantive standards and sustainable development as a sword and shield: Jeff Sullivan KC and Stephanie Collins; INVESTMENT TREATY COMMITMENTS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; 10.
Investment instruments in treaties on SDGs 2 (zero hunger) and 6 (water): Damilola Olawuyi and Alex Oche; 11.
Reconciliation of private investment protection and SDG 3 public health: Freya Baetens; 12.
Claims, third-party funding and SDGs 5 (gender) and 16 (justice and governance): Annie Lesperance, Dana MacGrath and Gian Marco Solas; 13.
Achieving SDG 7 clean energy through international investment law, and beyond: Avidan Kent; 14.
Investment treaties and SDGs 8 (work), 9 (infrastructure) and 11 (cities): J Anthony VanDuzer; 15.
Investment treaties and SDG 13 (climate action): Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Markus W. Gehring, Marios Tokas, Javiera Caceres Bustamante and Matheus Frederico Paes Garcia; 16.
Sustainable development and international trade and investment: pathways for future ambition on SDGs 13 (climate action), 14 (oceans), and 15 (biodiversity): Freedom-Kai Phillips; 17.
International investment, SDG 16 (justice and governance) and trade regimes: Alexandra Harrington; EMERGING PRIORITIES IN SUSTAINABILITY AND INVESTMENT DEBATES; 18.
Crafting more sustainable investor-state dispute settlement procedures through the UNCITRAL ISDS reform process: Susanna Kam; 19.
The contribution of international financial institutions to international sustainable development law: Johanna Aleria P. Lorenzo; 20.
Implementation of Belt and Road investments and sustainable development across Asia: Manjiao Chi and Yueming Yan; 21.
Considering foreign investment in light of the sustainable development goals: Kabir A.N. Duggal; CONCLUSIONS; 22.
Conclusions and future directions: Ted Gleason, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and Sean Stephenson