Leon Trakman

University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law

Kensington, New South Wales 2052

Australia

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1.

'Legal Traditions' and International Commercial Arbitration

American Review of International Arbitration, Spring 2007, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2007-29
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 18 May 2007
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Arbitration, common law, civil law, legal tradition, legal culture, international commercial arbitration

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The Impartiality and Independence of Arbitrators Reconsidered

UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2007-25, International Arbitration Law Review, Sweet & Maxwell, Vol. 10, Int.ALR, p. 999, 2007
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Apr 2007
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Arbitration, international commercial arbitration, conflict of interest

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The Boundaries of Contract Law in Cyberspace

Revue de droit des Affaires Internationales (RDAI) / International Business Law Journal / (IBLJ), No. 2, 2009, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2009-13
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Jun 2009
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Consumer Protection Law, Contracts

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China and Investor-State Arbitration

UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2012-48
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2012
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Ex Aequo Et Bono: De-Mystifying an Ancient Concept

UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2007-39, Chicago Journal of International Law, Winter 2008
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Jun 2007
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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adjudication, international law, arbitration, international commercial arbitration, treaties, International Court of Justice, investment, equity

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Modelling University Governance

Higher Education Quarterly, Vol. 62, Nos. 1 & 2, pp 63-83, January/April 2008, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2008-19
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Apr 2009
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Legal Education

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The Fundamental Importance of Foreign Direct Investment to Australia in the 21st Century: Reforming Treaty and Dispute Resolution Practice

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The Fundamental Importance of Foreign Direct Investment to Australia in the 21st Century: Reforming Treaty and Dispute Resolution Practice

Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 22-35, 2014, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 13/90
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2015
Shiro Patrick Armstrong, Jürgen Kurtz, Luke R. Nottage and Leon Trakman
Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy, University of Melbourne - Law School, The University of Sydney Law School and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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investment, FDI, free trade agreements, international law, arbitration, dispute resolution, comparative law, Asian law, political economy, econometrics

The Fundamental Importance of Foreign Direct Investment to Australia in the 21st Century: Reforming Treaty and Dispute Resolution Practice

(December 2014) ACICA Review, Vol 2, No 2, ISSN: 1837 8994, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2015-46
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 17 Sep 2015
Shiro Patrick Armstrong, Jürgen Kurtz, Luke R. Nottage and Leon Trakman
Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy, University of Melbourne - Law School, The University of Sydney Law School and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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investor-state dispute settlement, foreign direct investment, international investment law, Australia, Asia, stakeholder surveys, interviews

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Foreign Direct Investment: Hazard or Opportunity?

George Washington International Law Review, Vol. 41, p. 1, 2009, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2010-32
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 22 Aug 2010
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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International Investment Law, International Trade Law

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Investor State Arbitration or Local Courts: Will Australia Set a New Trend?

Journal of World Trade, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 83-120, 2012, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2012-1
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2012
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Foreign Direct Investment: An Australian Perspective

UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2010-4, International Trade and Business Law Review, Vol. XIII, 2010
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Jan 2010
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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International Law, International Trade, Trade Regulation

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The Binding Force of Agreements to Negotiate in Good Faith

The Cambridge Law Journal, November 2014, Vol 73(3), pp 598-628, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2015-04
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Feb 2015
Leon Trakman and Kunal Sharma
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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Contract, certainty of terms, agreement to agree, good faith

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The ICSID Under Siege

Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2012, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2012-6
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 16 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2012
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Foreign Direct Investment: A Historical Perspective

Trakman and Ranieri (eds), Regionalism in International Investment Law, Oxford University Press (2013), UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2016-11
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 15 Mar 2016
Leon Trakman and Nicola Ranieri
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and Independent
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foreign direct investment, regulation, treaty law, evolution, development

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Adhesion Contracts and the Twenty First Century Consumer

UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2007-67
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 23 Mar 2009
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Contracts

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The Proliferation of Free Trade Agreements: Bane or Beauty?

Journal of World Trade, Vol. 42, 2008, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2007-54
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Mar 2009
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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bilateral trade agreements

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China and Foreign Direct Investment: Looking Ahead

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China and Foreign Direct Investment: Looking Ahead

UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2013-24
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 04 Apr 2013
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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China and Foreign Direct Investment: Looking Ahead

In Wenhua Shan and Qiao Liu, China and International Dispute Resolution (Brill, 2016), UNSW Law Research Paper No. 18-14
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 23 Feb 2018
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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foreign direct investment, World Bank Report, New Global Economy, BIT, FTA, China, bilateral investment agreements

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The Twenty-First Century Law Merchant

American Business Law Journal, Vol. 48, No. 4, 2011, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2011-32
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2012
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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The Status of Investor–State Arbitration: Resolving Investment Disputes Under the Transpacific Partnership Agreement

Journal of World Trade, Vol 48, Issue 1 (2014), pp.1-29. , UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2014-06
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Feb 2014
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Pluralism in Contract Law

Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 58, No. 1, p. 1031, December 2010, University of New South Wales Law Research Paper No. 2009-28
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 16 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2011
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Contracts, monist theories of contracting

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Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreements

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Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreements

Transnational Dispute Management, Forthcoming, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2011-33
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 31 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2012
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreements

Trackman and Ranieri (eds) Regionalism in International Investment Law, Oxford University Press (2013), UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2016-13
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Mar 2016
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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bilateral trade and investment agreements, state action, bilateralism, multilateral trade

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Resolving Investor-State Disputes Under a Transpacific Partnership Agreement - What Lies Ahead?

Transnational Dispute Management (2012), Forthcoming, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2012-46
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2012
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Investor-State Arbitration: Evaluating Australia's Evolving Position

the Journal of World Investment & Trade 15 (2014), 152-192, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2014-05
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 Feb 2014
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Investment treaties, arbitration, litigation, ICSID, Transpacific Partnership Agreement, Australia, China

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The Right to be Forgotten—The EU and Asia Pacific Experience (Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore)

(2019) 1 European Human Rights Law Review 23, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 19-2
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Jan 2019
Bruno Zeller, Leon Trakman, Robert Walters and Sinta Dewi Rosadi
University of Western Australia - Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law, Victoria University and Padjadjaran University - Faculty of Law
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Right to Be Forgotten, Right to Erasure, EU, GDPR, Australia, Common Law, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Data Protection, Privacy South East Asia, Pacific

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Indonesia's Termination of the Netherlands – Indonesia BIT: Broader Implications in the Asia-Pacific?

Kluwer Arbitration Blog (2015), UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2015-49
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 17 Sep 2015
Leon Trakman and Kunal Sharma
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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investor state dispute settlement, Indonesia, Australia, Netherlands, Churchill Mining PLC, Planet Mining Pty Ltd v Republic of Indonesia, BIT

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A Plural Account of the Transnational Law Merchant

(2011) 2(3) Transnational Legal Theory 309–345, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2012-19
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 May 2012
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Domicile of Choice in English Law: An Achilles Heel?

Journal of Private International Law (2015) Vol 11, No 2, pp1-27, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2015-60
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Sep 2015
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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domicile of origin, domicile of choice, habitual residence, residency test, permanent home, English Law, Law Commission, EU Succession Regulation, EU Maintenance Regulation, Brussels II Regulation

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The ICSID and Investor State Arbitration

Trakman and Ranieri (eds), Regionalism in International Investment Law, Oxford University Press (2013), UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2016-20
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 31 Mar 2016
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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ICSID, Investors, Institutional Mechanisms, arbitration, domestic courts, dispute resolution, foreign investors, transparency

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BITs and Pieces: Regional Developments in Investor-State Dispute Settlement

APEC Currents (2014) December, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2015-2
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 13 Jan 2015
Leon Trakman and Kunal Sharma
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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Asia Pacific, ISDS, BIT, trade, investment

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Deciding Investor States Disputes: Australia's Distinctive Approach

15(1) Journal of World Investment and Trade (2014), UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2013-64
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2013
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Personal Data Law and Competition Law – Where is it Heading?

Forthcoming (2018) 39 European Competition Law Review, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 18-73
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 31 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2018
Robert Walters, Bruno Zeller and Leon Trakman
Victoria University, University of Western Australia - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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personal data, unfair advantage, data protection law, competition regulators, anticompetitive practices, anticompetitive behaviour, consumer protection

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The ‘Judicialization’ of International Commercial Arbitration: Pitfall or Virtue?

(2017) 30 Leiden Journal of International Law 405, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 17-65
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Oct 2017
Leon Trakman and Hugh Montgomery
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and University College London
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Australia; best practice; dispute resolution; international commercial arbitration; judicialization

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Instituting Investment Claims Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

in Wenhua Shan (ed), China and International Investment Law (2014), Chapter 12, pp 108-214, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2014-52
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2015
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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TPPA, trans-pacific partnership, P4, ISA, investment chapter, investor-state arbitration

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Resolving Investor-State Disputes: Australia's Dilemma and Choices

In Nye Perram, International Commercial Law and Arbitration: Perspectives, Chapter 1 (Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law, 2014), UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2014-62
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Dec 2014
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Australian Trade Policy Statement, BRTAs, FDI, TPPA, ISA

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The Reform of Commercial Arbitration in Australia: Recent and Prospective Developments

In A Rayes and G Wexia (eds), The Developing World of Arbitration, (Hart, 2018) ch 12, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 18-17
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Feb 2018
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Australia, Asia-pacific, International commercial arbitration, ICA, Australian Centre of International Commercial Arbitration, ACICA, Commercial Arbitration Acts, nternational Arbitration Act 1974 (Cth), UNCITRAL

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Public Responsibilities Beyond Consent: Rethinking Contract Theory

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 217, 2016, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 5
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Feb 2017
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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regulation of contracts, American law, public responsibilities, imperfect obligations, public harm, exchange of contractual promises

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Australia's Rejection of Investor-State Arbitration: A Sign of Global Change

Trakman and Ranieri (eds), Regionalism in International Investment Law, Oxford University Press (2013), UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2016-24
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Apr 2016
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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Investor State Arbitration, ISA, Australia, BITs, FTAs, policy, trade, APC

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Domestic Courts Declining to Recognize and Enforce Foreign Arbitral Awards: A Comparative Reflection

Fothcoming (2018) Chinese Journal of international law, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 18-71
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 05 Oct 2018
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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international arbitration awards, New York Convention, China, New York, public policy grounds, Foreign Arbitral Awards

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Locating Australia on the Pacific Rim: Trade, Investment and the Asian Century

TDM (January 2015) "The Pacific Rim and International Economic Law: Opportunities and Risks of the Pacific Century", 12(1), ISSN: 1875-4120, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2015-50
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 17 Sep 2015
Leon Trakman and Kunal Sharma
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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investor-state disupte settlement, Pacific Rim, Australia, foreign investors, Productivity Commission, Federal Direct Investment, TPPA, BIT

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Geopolitics, China, and Investor-Stale Arbitration

In C B Picker, L Toohey and J Greenacre (eds), China in the International Economic Order (Cambridge, 2015) ch 16, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 18-15
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Feb 2018
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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China, International Center for the Settlement of lnvestment Disputes (ICSIDI), Bilateral Investment Treaties, BIT, foreign direct investment, outbound investment, inbound investment, Investor-state Arbitration

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Foreign Direct Investment: An Overview

In Trakman and Ranieri (eds), Regionalism in International Investment Law, Oxford University Press (2013) , UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2016-03
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Jan 2016
Leon Trakman and Nicola Ranieri
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and Independent
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foreign direct investment, regulation, overview

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Jumping Back and Forth between Domestic Courts and ISDS: Mixed Signals from the Asia-Pacific Region

In S Hindelang and M Krajewski (eds), Shifting Paradigms in International Investment Law (Oxford, 2016) ch 13, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 18-16
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Mar 2018
Leon Trakman and Kunal Sharma
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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International investment Law, investor–State dispute settlement, ISDS, bilateral investment treaties, BIT, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD, Trade Policy Statement, Australia, Asia-Pacific, China–Australia Free Trade Agreement, ChAFTA

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The Repudiation of Investor–State Arbitration and Subsequent Treaty Practice: The Resurgence of Qualified Investor–State Arbitration

(2016) 31(1) ICSID Review 194, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 17-64
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Oct 2017
Leon Trakman and David Musayelyan
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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investor–State arbitration, ISA, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, ICSID, treaty obligations, bilateral investment treaties, BITs

43.

Caveat Investor - Where Do Things Stand Now?

In C L Lim, Alternative Visions of The International Law on Foreign Investment (Cambridge, 2016) Ch 3, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 18-13
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Feb 2018
Leon Trakman and D. Musaleyan
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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investor-state arbitration, ISA, investor protections, investor law, investment treaties

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Aligning State Sovereignty with Transnational Public Policy

(2018) 93(2) Tulane Law Review 207, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 18-89
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 14 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2019
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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transnational public policy, arbitration awards, United States, Russia, domestic judges, domestic public policy

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Public Responsibilities for Electoral Fraud Beyond Correlative Rights and Duties

(2015) 31(81) Utrecht Journal of International and European Law 17, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2015-57
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 Sep 2015
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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electoral fraud, electoral freedom, fraud, juristic rights, public responsibility, participatory democracy, US, Supreme Court, US v Texas

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Australia: The Reform of Commercial Arbitration in Australia: Recent and Prospective Developments

In Anselmo Reyes, Weixia Gu (eds), The Developing World of Arbitration A Comparative Study of Arbitration Reform in the Asia Pacific (Hart Publishing, 2018), UNSW Law Research Paper No. 18-70
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Oct 2018
Leon Trakman
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law
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International commercial arbitration, ICA, Australia, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards, ICSID Convention, UNCITRAL