Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization - Investment Rules and Democracy''s Promise

Informationen zum Autor David Schneiderman is Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Klappentext Critical examination of the regime governing international economic relations in the realm of foreign investment. Zusammenfassung David Schneiderman sketches the outlines of a new global regime governing international economic relations in the realm of foreign investment. The focus is on the links between this new regime and constitutionalism - between a constitution-like regime for the protection of foreign investment and the constitutional projects of national states. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the new constitutional order; Part I. Rules: 1. The investment rules regime; 2. The takings rule; 3. Investment rules in action; Part II. Projects: 4. Health and the environment; 5. Land and empowerment; 6. Privatization and democratization; Part III. Resistance: 7. Citizenship; 8. The rule of law; 9. A world of possibilities.

Product details

• Authors: David Schneiderman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2008
• EAN: 9780521692038
• ISBN: 978-0-521-69203-8
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / International, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, International economic & trade law, Public international law: economic and trade