International Investor Obligations Towards Individual International Responsibility for the Public Interest in International Investment Law

• Main Author: Abel, Patrick (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Baden-Baden Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2022
• Series: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht Band 315
• Subjects: LBB; Individuen als Völkerrechtssubjekte, Internationales Investitionsschutzrecht, Investorenpflichten, Staatenzentriertheit des Völkerrechts, völkerrechtlicher Schutz ausländischer Investoren, Völkerrechtsordnung, Völkerrechtssubjektivität, Wirtschaftsvölkerrecht, Investitionsschutzrecht, Unternehmenspflichten, Unternehmensverantwortlichkeit, internationale Lieferketten, Globalisierung, Nachhaltigkeit, Menschenrechte, Umweltrecht, Rechtsstaat, internationale Streitbeilegung, Schiedsverfahren, Investor-Staat-Schiedsverfahren, staatliches Regulierungsrecht, business and human rights, investment law, investor obligations, corporate responsibility, multi-national enterprises, international supply chains, sustainable development, human rights, environmental law, rule of law, international dispute settlement, investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), right to regulate
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International investment law has been criticised for years: Do investors enjoy international rights without corresponding responsibility? This book challenges this view. On the contrary, treaty and arbitration practice is already subject to dynamics introducing international investor obligations, systematised by this book as direct and indirect obligations. Inter alia, these relate to the protection of human rights and the environment. This development may potentially reorient the field towards the principle of sustainable development and may even turn it into an international instrument to regulate investors' behaviour. The book situates these findings in the broader context of general international law.

International investment law has been criticised for years: Do investors enjoy international rights without corresponding responsibility? This book challenges this view. On the contrary, treaty and arbitration practice is already subject to dynamics introducing international investor obligations, systematised by this book as direct and indirect obligations. Inter alia, these relate to the protection of human rights and the environment. This development may potentially reorient the field towards the principle of sustainable development and may even turn it into an international instrument to regulate investors' behaviour. The book situates these findings in the broader context of general international law.