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Browsing by Author "VADI, Valentina"
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Title:Public health in international investment law and arbitration
Author(s):VADI, ValentinaDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Is a State free to adopt measures to protect the public health of its citizens? If so, what are the limits, if any, to such regulatory powers? This book addresses these questions by focusing on the clash between the ...
Title:Trademark Protection, Public Health and International Investment Law: Strains and Paradoxes
Author(s):VADI, ValentinaDate:2009-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article aims at exploring the antinomies and paradoxes of trade mark protection in international investment law. The negative impact of trade mark protection on public health seems counterintuitive or even paradoxical. ...
Title:Fragmentation or Cohesion? Investment versus Cultural Protection Rules
Author(s):VADI, ValentinaDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The relationship between international law and international investment law has taken on a greater significance with the extraordinary flourishing of investment treaties in recent years. Although in a formal sense investment ...
Title:Reconciling Public Health with Investor Rights in International Investment Law
Author(s):VADI, ValentinaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis explores the complex interplay between international investment law and public health. Besides being closely related to human dignity and the right to life, health is fundamental to poverty reduction, human ...
Title:Towards Arbitral Path Coherence & Judicial Borrowing: Persuasive Precedent in Investment Arbitration
Author(s):VADI, ValentinaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Along with the unprecedented bloom of investment arbitration, arbitrators and scholars have increasingly faced the challenge of systematizing the growing body of case law. The difficult task is complicated by the fact that ...
Title:Sapere Aude! Access to Knowledge as a Human Right and a Key Instrument to Development
Author(s):VADI, ValentinaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article focuses on access to knowledge as a human right and instrument to development with particular regard to the pharmaceutical field. In the first part of this essay, after attempting to define knowledge, the two ...
Title:The Multilateral Trade Regime: Which Way Forward? A Look at the Warwick Report
Author(s):VADI, ValentinaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In the light of the complex negotiations of the Doha Development Agenda, the Warwick Commission has been charged with
carrying out independent analysis with the goal of making recommendations about how the World Trade ...
Title:Cultural Heritage & International Investment Law: A Stormy Relationship
Author(s):VADI, ValentinaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper investigates the relationship between international investment law and the protection of cultural heritage. Two questions arise in this connection. First, are investment agreements compatible with states' ...
