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"Contents" [2015] ELECD 1556; in Schill, W. Stephan; Tams, J. Christian; Hofmann, Rainer (eds), "International Investment Law and Development" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) v

Book Title: International Investment Law and Development

Editor(s): Schill, W. Stephan; Tams, J. Christian; Hofmann, Rainer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784711344

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors vii
Preface xii
Acknowledgments xiv

PART I INTRODUCTION AND KEYNOTE

1. International investment law and development: Friends or foes? 3
Stephan W. Schill, Christian J. Tams and Rainer Hofmann
2. Developing countries in the investment treaty system: A law for
need or a law for greed? 43
Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah

PART II CONCEPTUAL LINKAGES BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL
INVESTMENT LAW AND DEVELOPMENT

3. International investment law and development: A history of two
concepts 69
Yannick Radi
4. Overcoming obstacles with opportunities: Trade and investment
agreements for sustainable development 93
Markus W. Gehring and Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
5. UNCTAD's effort to foster the relationship between international
investment law and sustainable development 125
Andrea Saldarriaga and Kendra Magraw
6. Reviving the emperor's old clothes: The good governance agenda,
development and international investment law 147
Celine Tan
7. Aspiring for a constructive TWAIL approach towards the
international investment regime 180
Antonius R. Hippolyte




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PART III DEVELOPMENT AND SELF-DETERMINATION

8. Sovereignty over natural resources and international investment
law: The elusive search for equilibrium 223
Melaku Geboye Desta
9. International (investment) law and distribution conflicts over
natural resources 256
Isabel Feichtner
10. Democracy, development and compensation under investment
treaties: The case of transition from authoritarian rule 285
Jonathan Bonnitcha
11. Investment treaties and democratic transition: Does investment law
authorize not to honor contracts concluded with undemocratic
regimes? 309
Walid Ben Hamida

PART IV DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

12. The international mandate for development: ...