Sustainable development and investment treaty law

Journal of World Investment and Trade

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 357-407

  Newcombe, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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EID: 84917431972     PISSN: 16607112     EISSN: 22119000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/221190007X00071     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Agenda 21, Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, UN Doc. A/CONF.151/26/Pev. 1, (1992) 31 I.L.M. 874, para. 2.23.
2. U n i t e d Nations, Monterrey Consensus of the Itlremarional Conference on Financing for Development: The final text of agreetneiits and commitments adopted at the International Cotifereiice on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18-22 March 2002 [Monterrey Consensus]. Online: (http://wvrw.un.org/esa/ffd/Moiiterrcy%2OConsensus.pdf).
3. Monterrey Consensus, ibid., para. 1. Para. 20 states: "[Private intemational capital flows, particularly foreign direct investment, along with international financial stability, are vital complements to national and international development efforts. Foreign direct investment contributes toward financing sustained economic growth over the long term." 4 Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, U.N. Doc. A/CoNF. 199/20 (2002), para. 4 [Plan of Implementation]. Online: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/WSSD POI PD/English/POIToc.htm.
4. The WTO's Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures (Trims) addresses investment measures that breach trade obligations with respect to national treatment and quantitative restrictions. Online: http://www.wto.org/english/tratop e/invest e/invest-e.htm
5. G. White, Nationalisation of Foreign Property (London: Stevens Sons Limited, 1961)
6. R.B. Lillich, ed., The Valuation of Nationalized Property in International Law (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972)
7. M. Sornarajah, The Pursuit of Nationalized Property (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1986) and A.A. Akinsanya, The Expropriation of Multinational Property in the Third World (New York: Praeger, 1980).
8. The International Institute for Sustainable Development (lisd) has published a number of reports on the IIA regime raising concerns about IIAS. Sec online: http://www.iisd.org/investment. For a recent discussion, see F. Marshall and H. Mann, "Good Governance and the Rule of Law: Express Rules for Investor-State Arbitrations Required" (IlSD, September 2006) at 2 [Isn UNCITRAL Report]. Online: http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2006/investnient-uiicitral-rules-rrevision.pdf
9. K. Jayasuriya, "Globalization, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law: From Political to Economic Constitutionalism" (2001) 8:4 Constellations 442.
10. See http://vvTvw.imf.org/external/np/hipc/index.asp.
11. See articles discussing recent jurisprudence, supra note 42.
12. Online: htrp://ita.law.uvic.ca/documents/Aguas-BoliviaResponsc.pd.
13. Online: http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/tna-nac/NAFTA-Interpr-en.asp.
14. See online: http://www.globalreportilig. org/about/06whatWeDo. asp,.