Catharine Titi

CNRS

Research Associate Professor

Paris

http://catharinetiti.com

University Paris II Panthéon-Assas

Research Associate Professor

CERSA, 12 place du Panthéon

Paris, 75005

France

http://catharinetiti.com

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1.

Police Powers Doctrine and International Investment Law

In Filippo Fontanelli, Andrea Gattini and Attila Tanzi (eds) General Principles of Law and International Investment Arbitration, Brill, 2018, p. 323-343.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
Downloads 3,124 (7,019)
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police powers doctrine, general principles of law, customary international law, indirect expropriation, regulatory taking, international investment law, Restatement of the Law Third, investment arbitration

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The European Union's Proposal for an International Investment Court: Significance, Innovations and Challenges Ahead

Transnational Dispute Management 1, 2017 (advance publication 25 May 2016)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 10 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
Downloads 1,922 (15,094)
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international investment court, investment dispute settlement, EU TTIP Proposal, ISDS, investor-state dispute settlement, reform of investment law

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The Right to Regulate in International Investment Law (Revisited)

International and Comparative Law Research Center 2022
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 21 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2022
Catharine Titi
CNRS
Downloads 1,037 (37,955)
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ISDS, investor-state dispute settlement, right to regulate, UNCITRAL, ISDS reform, treaty exceptions, interpretation of treaty exceptions, Eco Oro v Colombia, Bear Creek v Peru, CETA

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Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Survival Clauses and Reform of International Investment Law

Journal of International Arbitration 33 (5), 2016, p. 425-440
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 04 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
Downloads 875 (48,040)
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Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, MFN, Survival Clauses, Sunset Clauses, Reform of International Investment Law

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Opinion 1/17 and the Future of Investment Dispute Settlement: Implications for the Design of a Multilateral Investment Court

In Lisa Sachs, Lise Johnson and Jesse Coleman (eds), Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2019 (Oxford University Press 2021), p. 514-541.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 11 May 2022
Catharine Titi
CNRS
Downloads 598 (79,031)
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Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Opinion 1/17, Multilateral Investment Court, Comprehensive Trade and Investment Agreement (CETA), Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), UNCITRAL Working Group III, Reform of ISDS, Applicable Law

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International Investment Law and the Protection of Foreign Investment in Brazil

Transnational Dispute Management 2, 2016, Special Issue on Latin America vol. 1 (eds Ignacio Torterola and Quinn Smith)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
Downloads 505 (97,526)
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Brazil, cooperation and facilitation investment agreement (CFIA), investment law, investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS), model treaty, international investment agreements (IIA), bilateral investment treaties (BITs)

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Embedded Liberalism and IIAs: The Future of the Right to Regulate, with Reflections on WTO Law

Published in Gillian Moon and Lisa Toohey (eds) The Future of International Economic Integration: The Embedded Liberalism Compromise Revisited, Cambridge University Press, 2018, p. 122-136.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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Embedded liberalism, right to regulate, international investment law, IIAs, WTO law, TTIP, CETA, TPP, Brazilian CFIAs, Indian model BIT

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Investment Treaty Arbitration Caught in the Public-Private Law Divide

Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 45 (3), 2024 (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 14 Aug 2023
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), investment arbitration, ISDS reform, UNCITRAL, international dispute settlement, international arbitration, international courts, public versus private methods of dispute settlement, public international law, private international law

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International Investment Law and ISDS: Mapping Contemporary Latin America

In Katia Fach Gómez and Catharine Titi (eds), The Latin American Challenge to the Current System of Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Journal of World Investment & Trade: Special Issue 17 (4), 2016
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 May 2016 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Katia Fach Gómez and Catharine Titi
University of Zaragoza and CNRS
Downloads 346 (150,747)
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Latin America, international investment law, Brazil’s cooperation and facilitation investment agreements (CFIAs), UNASUR Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, national arbitration laws, investor-State dispute settlement, dispute prevention and alternative dispute resolution (ADR)

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Are Investment Tribunals Adjudicating Political Disputes? Some Reflections on the Repoliticization of Investment Disputes and (New) Forms of Diplomatic Protection

Journal of International Arbitration 32 (3), 2015, p. 261-288
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 12 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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repoliticization, depoliticization, investment arbitration, ISDS

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Investment Arbitration in Latin America: The Uncertain Veracity of Preconceived Ideas

Arbitration International 30 (2), 2014 , Winner of the Smit-Lowenfeld Prize of the International Arbitration Club of New York 2016
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2022
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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ISDS, Latin America, UNASUR, investment arbitration, investor-state dispute settlement

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Refining the Expropriation Clause: What Role for Proportionality?

In Julien Chaisse (ed.) China-European Union Investment Relationships: Towards a New Leadership in Global Investment Governance?, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, p. 111-130.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 05 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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Proportionality, expropriation, police powers doctrine, general principles of law, margin of appreciation doctrine, necessity test, balancing of interests, investment arbitration, EU-China negotiations

13.

Procedural Multilateralism and Multilateral Investment Court

Elaine Fahey (ed.) Institutionalisation Beyond the Nation State: Transatlantic Relations – Data Privacy and Trade Law, Springer, 2018
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 May 2017 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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Mauritius Convention, OECD Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), Multilateral Investment Court, European Union investment policy

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The Evolution of Substantive Investment Protections in Recent Trade and Investment Treaties

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) & International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) - RTA Exchange Think Piece
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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International Investment Law, Substantive Investment Protection Standards, Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Intra-Mercosur Investment Protocol, Pacer Plus, CETA, EU-Singapore Investment Protection Agreement

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Control constitucional y derecho internacional de inversiones a través de cuatro sentencias constitucionales en Colombia, Ecuador, y la Unión Europea (Constitutional Review and International Investment Law in Light of Four Constitutional Decisions in Colombia, Ecuador and the European Union)

In Gabriel Bottini y Alejandro Chehtman (eds), Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional, Número especial, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 May 2020 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
Downloads 249 (211,840)
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Corte Constitucional de Colombia, Corte Constitucional de Ecuador, Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (TJUE), tribunales constitucionales, derecho internacional de inversiones, CETA, controversias entre inversores y Estados, Dictamen 1/17 del TJUE, ISDS, CJEU, Opinion 1/17, Sentencia C-252/19

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UNCTAD's Roadmap for IIA Reform of Investment Dispute Settlement

New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, Vol. 21(4), Dec. 2015
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 02 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Joerg Weber and Catharine Titi
United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and CNRS
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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Roadmap for Reform, International Investment Agreements (IIAs), Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), Reform of Investment Law

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States Strike Back - Old and New Ways for Host States to Defend Against Investment Arbitrations

This chapter was published in Andrea Bjorklund (ed), Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2013-2014, Oxford University Press, 2015, p. 401-435
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 14 Jun 2022
Lars A. Markert and Catharine Titi
Nishimura & Asahi and CNRS
Downloads 225 (233,679)
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investment arbitration, right to regulate, ISDS, investor obligations, counterclaims, host state, state-to-state dispute, fork-in-the-road, jurisdiction, admissibility, illegal investment, Salini test, ICSID, corruption, enforcement, anti-suit injunction, CSR, MFN, annulment, set-aside, Maffezini

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The Arbitrator as a Lawmaker: Jurisgenerative Processes in Investment Arbitration

Journal of World Investment & Trade 14 (5), 2013, p. 829-851
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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investment arbitration, ISDS, arbitral activism, new generation investment agreements, arbitral lawmaking, MFN, Maffezini, Abaclat

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Investment Arbitration and the Controverted Right of the Arbitrator to Issue a Separate or Dissenting Opinion

The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 17 (1), 2018
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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Dissenting opinions, separate opinions, neutrality of party-appointed arbitrators, development of international investment law

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International Dispute Settlement in Cultural Heritage Law and in the Protection of Foreign Investment: From Collision to Cross-Fertilisation

Journal of International Dispute Settlement 8 (3), 2017, p. 535–556
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), international investment law, international cultural heritage law, international dispute settlement

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Full Protection and Security, Arbitrary or Discriminatory Treatment and the Invisible EU Model BIT

In Marc Bungenberg and August Reinisch (eds), The Anatomy of the (Invisible) EU Model BIT, Journal of World Investment & Trade: Special Issue 15 (3-4), 2014, p. 534-550
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 04 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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Full protection and security, arbitrary or discriminatory measures, EU Model BIT, Exceptions clauses, CETA, EU Member State best practices, EU platinum standard, EU investment policy

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Nationality and Representation in the Composition of the International Bench: Lessons from the Practice of International Courts and Tribunals and Policy Options for the Multilateral Investment Court

CERSA Working Papers on Law and Political Science 1/2020
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 29 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
Downloads 172 (297,834)
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international courts and tribunals, multilateral investment court (MIC), investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), nationality, representation, geographical representation, judge ad hoc, ICJ, ITLOS, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, composition of a court, ICSID

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UNASUR Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes: Comments on the Draft Constitutive Agreement

Investment Treaty News Volume 7, Issue 3, August 2016
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 13 Aug 2016
Katia Fach Gómez and Catharine Titi
University of Zaragoza and CNRS
Downloads 149 (336,047)

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UNASUR, IISD, investment arbitration, Latin America

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International Investment Law and the European Union: Towards a New Generation of International Investment Agreements

European Journal of International Law 26 (3), 2015, p. 639-661
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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European Union, investment policy, new generation investment agreements, international investment agreements (IIAs), EU investment agreements, EU member States' best practices, North American investment treaties, EU model BIT

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Facilitating Access to Investor-State Dispute Settlement for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Tracing the Path Forward

forthcoming in (2023) European Business Law Review 34 (7)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2023
Katia Fach Gómez and Catharine Titi
University of Zaragoza and CNRS
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), access to justice, international investment agreements, advisory centre on international investment law, procedural costs, legal assistance funds.

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El Centro De Solución De Controversias En Materia De Inversiones De Unasur: Comentarios Sobre El Borrador De Acuerdo Constitutivo (UNASUR Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes: Comments on the Draft Constitutive Agreement)

Investment Treaty News Volume 7, Issue 3, August 2016
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 13 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2022
Katia Fach Gómez and Catharine Titi
University of Zaragoza and CNRS
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Latinoamérica, UNASUR, arbitraje de inversiones, solución de controversias

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Non-Adjudicatory State-State Mechanisms in Investment Dispute Prevention and Dispute Settlement: Joint Interpretations, Filters and Focal Points

in Hervé Ascensio, Nitish Monebhurrun and Catharine Titi (eds), International Investment Law, Brazilian Journal of International Law: Special Issue 14 (2), 2017
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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international investment law, focal points, ombudsmen, investment ombudsman, national contact points, filters, international investment agreements, binding interpretations, Article 31(3) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, joint interpretive statements, NAFTA Free Trade Commission, CETA

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Selection and Appointment of International Adjudicators: Structural Options for ISDS Reform

Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/11, 2019
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Mar 2021
McGill University - Faculty of Law, Saarland University, UIBE - Center for Int'l Economic Law & Policy (CIELP), Law School, and CNRS
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selection, appointment, election, arbitrators, judges, rosters

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The Right to Regulate

Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2022/2
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 01 Nov 2022
Ted Gleason and Catharine Titi
Independent and CNRS
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right to regulate, international investment law, investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS), UNCITRAL, UNCITRAL Working Group III, ISDS reform, treaty interpretation, international investment agreements (IIAs), international investment treaties, arbitration, investment arbitration, treaty exceptions

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Public Actors in International Investment Law

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-58916-5
Number of pages: 205 Posted: 01 Apr 2021
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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international investment law, public actors, actors, investor-state dispute settlement, ISDS, national courts, third-party intervention, dispute prevention, home state, state immunity from execution, political risk insurance, investment treaties, FDI screening, security exceptions

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Who's Afraid of Reform? Beware the Risk of Fragmentation

AJIL Unbound 112, 2018, p. 232-236
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 15 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), international investment court, investment court system (ICS), Brazilian CFIAs, fragmentation of international law, multilateral investment court (MIC), UNCITRAL multilateral reform negotiations Working Group III

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Comparative Costs and Financing of Permanent Dispute Settlement Mechanisms

Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2022/1, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 22-37
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2022
CNRS, PluriCourts Centre of Excellence, Law Faculty, Oslo University, New York University School of Law, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) - Department of Finance and Management and New York University School of Law
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costs, ISDS, permanent dispute settlement mechanisms, international courts, arbitration, ICJ, ITLOS, WTO DSB, ICC, ICSID

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Res Iudicata and Interlocutory Decisions under the ICSID Convention: Antinomies over the Power of Tribunals to Review

ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal 33 (2), 2018
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 11 May 2022
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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Res Iudicata, Res Judicata, Provisional Decisions, ICSID Convention

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La création d’une Cour multilatérale pour les investissements (The Creation of a Multilateral Investment Court)

in Raphaël Maurel (ed.), Nouveaux regards sur le droit européen des investissements (Collection des travaux du CREDIMI), LexisNexis, 2023
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 16 Jul 2023
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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Multilateral investment court (MIC), bilateral investment courts, investment court system (ICS), UNCITRAL Working Group III, reform negotiations, investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), investment arbitration, international investment agreements (IIAs), European Union

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La révision des règlements du CIRDI (The Amendments to the ICSID Rules and Regulations)

Annuaire français de droit international 2022 (CNRS Éditions 2023), pp. 777-791
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Dec 2023
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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ICSID rules and regulations, amendment to ICSID rules and regulations, ICSID, ICSID Convention, ICSID Additional Facility, mediation, conciliation

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Entrevista: Arbitraje de Inversión: perspectivas y reformas (Interview: Investment Arbitration: Perspectives and Reforms)

Principia No. 5–2021
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
Catharine Titi
CNRS
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ISDS, UNCITRAL Working Group III, Latin America, international investment law, investment arbitration

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International Investment Agreements and Foreign Direct Investment: A Survey

(2023) 46 (6) The World Economy 1524
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 26 Jun 2023
Peter H. Egger, Alain Pirotte and Catharine Titi
Ifo Institute for Economic Research - International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment, ERMES (CNRS), Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II and CNRS
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international investment agreements (IIAs), foreign direct investment (FDI), capital flows, FDI flows,

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Droits de l'homme et droit international économique (Human Rights and International Economic Law)

Bruylant (book edited by Catharine Titi - multiple authors)
Posted: 18 Nov 2021
Catharine Titi
CNRS

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human rights, international economic law, international investment law, WTO law

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The Right to Regulate in International Investment Law

Nomos & Hart Publishing, 2014
Posted: 07 Aug 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS

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Right to regulate, international investment law, IIAs, exceptions, essential security interests, general exceptions, security exceptions, Argentine crisis disputes, economic security, non-lowering of standards, ICSID, health, safety and the environment, indirect expropriation, police powers doctrine

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Developments in International Investment Law and Policy in the European Union

In Lisa Sachs and Lise Johnson (eds), Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2017, Oxford University Press, 2019, p. 260-272
Posted: 05 Apr 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS

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European Union, international investment law, common commercial policy, competence over the conclusion of International investment agreements, international investment court, intra-EU BITs, EU negotiations

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Recent Developments in ISDS: Jurisdiction and Admissibility—Procedure and Conduct

In Lisa Sachs, Lise Johnson and Jesse Coleman (eds), Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2018, Oxford University Press, 2019, p. 159-180
Posted: 08 Mar 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS

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arbitral tribunal, admissibility, Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), jurisdiction, third-party participation, covered investment, covered investor, exhaustion of domestic remedies, intra-EU BITs, Achmea, limited local remedies, arbitrator challenges, bifurcation, third-party funding and security for costs

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Developments in International Investment Law and Policy in the European Union

In Lisa Sachs, Lise Johnson and Jesse Coleman (eds), Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2018, Oxford University Press, 2019, p. 311-327
Posted: 07 Mar 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS

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International investment law, European Union, intra-EU BITs, Political declarations, termination of intra-EU BITs, Achmea Judgment, Multilateral Investment Court, Opinion 1/17, UNCITRAL Working Group III, ISDS reform, FDI screening on national security grounds, Regulation (EU) 2019/452

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Recent Developments in International Investment Law

In Marc Bungenberg, Markus Krajewski, Christian Tams, Jörg Philip Terhechte, Andreas Ziegler (eds) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2018, Springer, 2019, p. 383-403
Posted: 06 Mar 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS

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international investment law, investment arbitration, ISDS, international investment court, UNCITRAL, European Union, intra-EU BITs, megaregionals, CETA

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Recent Developments in ISDS: Jurisdiction and Admissibility – Procedure and Conduct

In Lisa Sachs and Lise Johnson (eds), Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2017, Oxford University Press, 2019, p. 133-149
Posted: 06 Mar 2020
Catharine Titi
CNRS

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Jurisdiction, admissibility, procedure, conduct, arbitration, ISDS, definition of protected investment, definition of protected investor, nationality and foreign control, intra-EU BITs, counterclaims, ECT, denunciation of the ICSID Convention, corruption, illegality of investment, disqualification