The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-289617-9
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: International Economic Law Series

A large amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been poured into Africa in recent decades and these investments can come with adverse effects on the environment, human rights, and development. At the same time, investment treaties, entered into by African states and aimed at promoting and protecting FDI, seriously limit those states' ability to regulate such activities in the interests of affected communities.

Whilst these tensions have generated global debate, little attention has been paid to the legal status of many of these investment treaties, and whether - given their constitutional and customary international law obligations to act in the public interest - African states truly have the capacity to conclude treaties which contain standards of investment protection expressly preventing or unduly abridging the exercise of their regulatory authority.

Focusing on this question, The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa presents The Imperatives Theory: a legal, normative, and principled framework for rethinking the legal status, making, and reform of investment treaties and investment dispute settlement in Africa, with relevant and significant implications for the global investment treaty regime.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dagbanja, Dominic Npoanlari

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Zivilprozessrecht Streitschlichtung, Mediation

Über Autor(innen)

Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja is a Senior Lecturer (International Investment Law) at The University of Western Australia Law School; Research Fellow, African Procurement Law Unit, Department of Mercantile Law, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and Associate Director of Community Engagement of UWA Africa Research and Engagement Centre. He was an Investment Policy Consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Manchester Law School and Lecturer in Law at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja has published extensively in International Investment Law and Public Procurement Law and Policy in reputable peer-reviewed international law journals including: African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Cambridge Law Review, Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, Public Procurement Law Review, Transnational Corporations and Transnational Legal Theory.