Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Investor State Dispute - The Unexhausted Potential of Current Mechanisms

Explores the 'unexhausted' potential in current investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms to advance investors' responsibility for their conduct.

List of contents

1. Introduction: corporate responsibility and the 'one-sidedness' of investment law; 2. Corporate environmental and human rights obligations in international law: outside and inside the IIA regime; 3. Counterclaims: benefits, normative grounds and limits; 4. Counterclaims: jurisdiction and admissibility; 5. Counterclaims: merits; 6. Corporate environmental responsibility and the investor's principal claims; 7. Conclusion: implications for reform.

About the author

Tomoko Ishikawa is Professor at Nagoya University in Japan. She is a member of the ICSID Panel of Conciliators, appointed by the ICSID Administrative Council. Her professional experiences include serving as an Associate Judge at Tokyo District Court and holding the position of Deputy Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

Summary

This book explores the inherent potential to reflect the responsibility of foreign investors in the existing investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism, providing guidance on what can be done in the current mechanism to advance responsible investment. It also reveals its limitations that should inform the ongoing ISDS reform discussions.

Product details

• Authors: Tomoko Ishikawa, Tomoko (Nagoya University Ishikawa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2024
• EAN: 9781009077033
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0907703-3
• No. of pages: 342
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, International business, Public International Law, Investment Treaties & Disputes, International economic & trade law, Public international law: economic and trade, Settlement of international disputes