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The European Union and International Investment Law Reform

The European Union and International Investment Law Reform

The European Union and International Investment Law Reform

Between Aspirations and Reality
Ivana Damjanovic, Australian National University, Canberra
July 2023
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    In order to understand the reform of international investment law envisioned by the EU, the author provides a comprehensive but concise analysis of the EU reform approaches, its constitutional and legal framework, the concepts of the rule of law and legitimacy, and the reasons for the reform. In particular, the book exposes tensions between the EU aspiration to enhance the rule of law in international investment law, as a means of legitimising this legal discipline, and the challenges of its reform approaches in practice. The analysis combines substantive and procedural aspects of the EU reform of international investment law in the intra-EU context and EU external relations. This book thus critically evaluates the EU vision of the rule of law in international law and its contribution to the development of international law in the field of investment.

    • Provides a comprehensive legal analysis of the relationship between EU and international investment law
    • Places the reform of international investment law in the conceptual framework of the rule of law and legitimacy
    • Provides and interrelates different components of the EU reform of investment law and correlates them to the EU constitutional and legal framework

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    'This is a comprehensive, policy-oriented study of the input of the European Union in the on-going struggle over the future direction of international investment law. Written with elegance and a critical eye on legal details, the book succeeds marvelously in the almost impossible task of bringing together and evaluating the different ideas underlying the various meanings of the 'rule of law' animating EU's internal and external policy as well as international investment law. It peaks in a sharp and realistic analysis of the prospects for the proposed International Investment Court. This is the best work that I have read on the law and politics and international investment law.' Martti Koskenniemi FBA, Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki, Emeritus

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    July 2023
    Hardback
    9781009345392
    256 pages
    235 × 158 × 29 mm
    0.79kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • General Introduction
    • Part I. International Investment Regulation:
    • 1. International investment law: history, rules and procedures
    • 2. Mapping the challenges of ISDS reform
    • 3. Intersections of law and politics: legitimacy and the rule of law
    • Part II. The Internal Investment Regime of the EU:
    • 4. The EU legal order and investment in the internal market
    • 5. 'International' investment in the EU: intra-EU agreements of Member States
    • 6. EU institutional framework: legal limitations to policy efficiency
    • Part III. The External Investment Regime of the EU:
    • 7. Political context of the EU international investment reform
    • 8. EU standards in international investment treaties
    • 9. The Investment Court System: integrating the rule of (EU) law
    • 10. The EU and UNCITRAL: a Multilateral Investment Court
    • General Conclusion: the EU reform – between aspirations and reality.
      Author
    • Ivana Damjanovic , Australian National University, Canberra

      Ivana Damjanovic is an interdisciplinary researcher and legal scholar. Her research areas include international investment law, EU law, and EU external trade and investment relations. She has a Ph.D. from the Australian National University and master's degrees in economics and law from University College Dublin and University of Zagreb. She is a qualified Australian lawyer. Since 2016, she has been teaching law at the University of Canberra, where she has been a full-time faculty since 2019. From 2004 to 2013 she was a member of the Croatian diplomatic service.