Title:Great expectations : the fair and equitable treatment standard in the international law of foreign investment
Author(s):TUDOR, IoanaDate:2006Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The treatment of foreign investors and of their investments on the territory of a host State is often subject to a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) signed by the national State of the investors and the host State. These ...
Title:A Green Way Out? or The Effects of Environmental Protection on the Public Enforcement Mechanism
Author(s):BORZSÁK, LeventeDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis argues that the present provisions on public enforcement are inadequate for the effective promotion of compliance with Community law and seeks to provide solutions in order to improve them. Article 226 and 228 ...
Title:The growing autonomy of international commercial arbitration
Author(s):PETSCHE, MarkusDate:2004Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study argues that the growing autonomy of international commercial arbitration constitutes the leitmotiv of virtually all recent legislative and doctrinal developments in this field. On the basis of an interest-analysis, ...
Title:Harmonisation by Stealth: The Bologna process and European higher education law
Author(s):GARBEN, Sacha Margaretha MariaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The Bologna Process is a powerful reform movement, aimed at establishing a European Higher Education Area, most specifically by introducing a common standard of a three-cycle Bachelor, Master, Doctorate system for higher ...
Title:Human Rights and Transnational Corporations: For a multi-level governance approach
Author(s):O'BRIEN, ClaireDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis argues for adoption of a multi-level governance perspective with regard to the problematic of the regulation the human rights impacts of transnational business, on three main grounds. First, that the multi-level ...
Title:Human Rights as the Business of Business: The application of human rights standards to the oil industry
Author(s):HERNANDEZ URIZ, GenovevaDate:2005Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis explores the challenges posed by greater public demands placed upon transnational corporations to improve their human rights records. Its focus is placed on the oil industry because it epitomises the archetypical ...