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26 Feb 2014, 9:53 am
For instance, back in 1985, Robert Levinson complained of a contract with the Eckerd Foundation for the management of the Okeechobee School for Boys in which “[v]irtually every” contract item concerned input activities and pertained to administrative/operational functions. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 11:20 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Supreme Court’s 1988 decision in Basic, Inc. v. [read post]
1 Dec 2013, 3:50 am
In a prior post I noted the upcoming Second Annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, will be held in Geneva 2-4 December 2013. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 4:52 am
  You can read a little more about the background of the suit in the news story you can find here. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 6:19 pm by Larry Catá Backer
This tension increases the risk that cooperatives will be reduced to little more than a means of privatizing central planning.Table of Contents I. [read post]
5 Jul 2013, 8:25 am by Larry Catá Backer
”[3] However, the environmental concerns of local communities remain beyond the reach of international law, absent an element of global common concern, for intra-territorial environmental harms fall squarely within the sovereign jurisdiction of host states.[4] Should host states choose to listen to local community concerns and shut down corporate operations, they find themselves subject to investor-state arbitration clauses that privilege the rights of investors over… [read post]
14 Feb 2013, 8:20 pm by Larry Catá Backer
  All of this is inconsistent with traditional notions of the role of law, the scope of corporate governance and the nature of corporate social responsibility int he United States. [read post]
13 Feb 2013, 8:03 pm by Larry Catá Backer
  All of this is inconsistent with traditional notions of the role of law, the scope of corporate governance and the nature of corporate social responsibility int he United States. [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 2:57 am by Peter Mahler
Before we get to Part One of this two-part interview, let me tell you a little more about the interviewee. [read post]
4 Jan 2013, 7:30 am
Contents include:Case CommentsHans van Houtte & Bridie McAsey, Abaclat and others v Argentine Republic: ICSID, the BIT and Mass Claims Andrea Marco Steingruber, Abaclat and Others v Argentine Republic: Consent in Large-scale Arbitration Proceedings Céline Lévesque, Abaclat and Others v Argentine Republic: The Definition of Investment Samuel Wordsworth, Abaclat and Others v Argentine Republic: Jurisdiction, Admissibility and Pre-conditions to… [read post]