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Foreign Investment Arbitration: A Place for Human Rights?
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The article examines the tension between the protection of foreign investment through treaties and arbitration and human rights. It considers the systematic integration of human rights into the interpretation of investment treaties and the use of a human-rights audit in foreign investment contracts to reassess investors’ legitimate expectations.
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The effect of human-rights obligations on applicable law and investors’ legitimate expectations in treaty and foreign-investment-contract arbitration
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“FOREIGN INVESTMENT ARBITRATION: A PLACE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS?”
International and Comparative Law Quarterly · 2011
DOI 10.1017/s0020589311000224
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