Jürgen Kurtz

University of Melbourne - Law School

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University Square

185 Pelham Street, Carlton

Victoria, Victoria 3010

Australia

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Scholarly Papers (18)

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FDI Perspectives: Issues in International Investment

FDI PERSPECTIVES: ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT, K. Sauvant, L. Sachs, K. Davies, R. Zandvliet, eds., Vale Columbia Center, 2011
Number of pages: 122 Posted: 23 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2023
Columbia University - Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University - Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden Law School, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Independent, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Political Science, Duke University, Political Science, University of Michigan Law School, Autonomous University of Madrid, Independent, WU, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, East-West Center, Drylands Research, United Nations, Independent, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective GoodsUniversity of Hamburg, Law School, University of Melbourne - Law School, Investment Division, OECD, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Investment Division, School of Management, University at Buffalo (SUNY), University of Oklahoma, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Independent, Heenan Blaikie LLP, McGill University - Faculty of Law, USC Gould School of Law, Boston University, University College London, American University - Washington College of Law, Columbia University - Law School, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Washburn University - School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Independent
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International investment treaties and arbitration, national investment policies, emerging market investors

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The Global Financial Crisis and International Economic Law

Published in: 12 Journal of International Economic Law (2009), Issue 4, pp. 859-894., U. of St. Gallen Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2009-04
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2014
Anne van Aaken, Anne van Aaken and Jürgen Kurtz
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective GoodsUniversity of Hamburg, Law School and University of Melbourne - Law School
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International Investment Law, Economic Crisis, Emergency measures, WTO

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A General Investment Agreement in the WTO? Lessons from Chapter 11 of NAFTA and the OECD Multilateral Agreement on Investment

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 31 Mar 2003
Jürgen Kurtz
University of Melbourne - Law School
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Adjudging the Exceptional at International Law: Security, Public Order and Financial Crisis

Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) Inaugural Conference 2008
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Jul 2008
Jürgen Kurtz
University of Melbourne - Law School
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International Law, Security, Public Order, Financial Crisis, Investment treaty, Argentina, State of Necessity, Customary international law, Treaty exception, Necessity, Confluence, Lex Specialis, Primary-Secondary, Essential Security Interests

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Building Legitimacy Through Interpretation in Investor-State Arbitration: On Consistency, Coherence and the Identification of Applicable Law

Zachary Douglas, Joost Pauwelyn and Jorge Vinuales, eds., The Foundations of International Investment Law: Bridging Theory Into Practice (Oxford University Press, 2013, Forthcoming, U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 670
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2014
Jürgen Kurtz
University of Melbourne - Law School
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International investment law, investor-state arbitration, consistency, coherence, applicable law

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
Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy, University of Melbourne - Law School, The University of Sydney - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - UNSW Law & Justice
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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
Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy, University of Melbourne - Law School, The University of Sydney - Faculty of Law and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - UNSW Law & Justice
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investor-state dispute settlement, foreign direct investment, international investment law, Australia, Asia, stakeholder surveys, interviews

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FDI Perspectives: Issues in International Investment, 2nd Edition

K. Sauvant and J. Reimer, eds., New York: Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, 2012
Number of pages: 282 Posted: 16 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2018
Karl P. Sauvant, Jennifer Reimer, Todd Allee, Ilan Alon, Alice H. Amsden, Tadahiro Asami, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Paul Barbour, Christian Bellak, Axel Berger, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Subrata Bhattacharjee, Harry G. Broadman, Elizabeth Broomfield, Gert Bruche, Matthias Busse, John A. Cantwell, Aleh Cherp, Lorenzo Cotula, Nandita Dasgupta, Kenneth Davies, Alexandre de Gramont, Armand Claude de Mestral, Kabir Duggal, Persephone Economou, John Evans, David N. Fagan, Mark Feldman, Hermann Ferré, Daniel M. Firger, Daniel M. Firger, Veljko Fotak, Susan Franck, Kevin P. Gallagher, Nilgun Gokgur, Kathryn Gordon, Jose Guimon, Thilo Hanemann, Torfinn Harding, Jean-François Hennart, Seev Hirsch, Wing (Xiaoying) Huo, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Nathan M. Jensen, Lise Johnson, Thomas Jost, George Kahale III, Kalman Kalotay, Laza Kekic, John M. Kline, Charles Kovacs, Jürgen Kurtz, Jo En Low, Miguel Pérez Ludeña, Edmund J. Malesky, Geraldine McAllister, William L. Megginson, Sophie Meunier, Michael Mortimore, Joel Moser, Michael D. Nolan, Peter Nunnenkamp, Terutomo Ozawa, Clint Peinhardt, Nicolás M. Perrone, Luke Eric Peterson, Mark Plotkin, Joachim Pohl, Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen, Carlos Razo, Daniel Rosen, Martin Roy, Giorgio Sacerdoti, Premila Nazareth Satyanand, Manfred Schekulin, Stephan W. Schill, Francisco Colman Sercovich, Arjen HL Slangen, Roger Smeets, Hans Smit, M. Sornarajah, Frederic G. Sourgens, Jonathan Strauss, Kenneth P. Thomas, Margo Thomas, Perrine Toledano, Julien Topal, Anne van Aaken, Anne van Aaken, Gus Van Harten, Daniel Villar, Sandy Walker, Mira Wilkins, Jason W. Yackee and Chen Zhao
Columbia University - Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Independent, Independent, University of Agder - School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Independent, University of Michigan Law School, Independent, WU, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - German Development Institute (DIE), University of Groningen, Heenan Blaikie LLP, World Bank - Europe and Central Asia Region, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Ruhr-University Bochum, Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick, Central European University, Independent, Independent, Columbia University, Independent, McGill University - Faculty of Law, Independent, World Bank Group, Saint Peter's University, Independent, Peking University School of Transnational Law, Independent, New York University School of LawColumbia Center for Climate Change Law, School of Management, University at Buffalo (SUNY), American University - Washington College of Law, Boston University, Independent, Investment Division, OECD, Autonomous University of Madrid, Independent, University of Oxford, Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management, Tel Aviv University - Faculty of Management, Independent, University of Oxford - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Political Science, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg, Independent, Institute of World Economics, Independent, Independent, Independent, University of Melbourne - Law School, Independent, Independent, Duke University, Political Science, Columbia University, University of Oklahoma, Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Independent, Independent, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, University of Kiel, East-West Center, University of Texas at Dallas, Escuela de Derecho, Universidad de Valparaíso, Independent, Independent, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Investment Division, University College London, United Nations, Independent, World Trade Organization (WTO) - Trade in Services Division, Bocconi University - Department of Law, Independent, Government of the Republic of Austria - Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, University of Amsterdam, Independent, University of Amsterdam Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Management & Global Business, Columbia University - Law School, National University of Singapore - Faculty of Law, Washburn University - School of Law, Independent, University of Missouri at Saint Louis, Independent, Columbia University - Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, European University Institute - Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS), Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective GoodsUniversity of Hamburg, Law School, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics, Independent, Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin Law School and Independent
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Ngos, the Internet and International Economic Policy Making: The Failure of the OECD Multilateral Agreement on Investment

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Jan 2003
Jürgen Kurtz
University of Melbourne - Law School
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Investment Treaty Arbitration ‘Down Under’: Policy and Politics in Australia

ICSID Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 465-480, 2015, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 15/06
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 08 May 2015
Jürgen Kurtz and Luke R. Nottage
University of Melbourne - Law School and The University of Sydney - Faculty of Law
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international law, international arbitration, dispute resolution, investment treaties, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Commonwealth law, Asian law, legislative process

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Legalizing the ASEAN Way: Adapting and Reimagining the ASEAN Investment Regime

American Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 02 Dec 2016
Sungjoon Cho and Jürgen Kurtz
Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Melbourne - Law School
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international investment law, ASEAN way, de-legalization, path-dependency

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Converging Divergences: A Common Law of International Trade and Investment

Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-02
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2015
Sungjoon Cho and Jürgen Kurtz
Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Melbourne - Law School
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international trade law, international investment law, convergence, common law

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The Limits of Isomorphism: Global Investment Law and the ASEAN Investment Regime

Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 17, 2016
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2016
Sungjoon Cho and Jürgen Kurtz
Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Melbourne - Law School
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ASEAN, international investment law

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International Cooperation and Organizational Identities: The Evolution of the ASEAN Investment Regime

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Jul 2016
Sungjoon Cho and Jürgen Kurtz
Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Melbourne - Law School
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organizational identities, ASEAN, international investment law

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Australia's Rejection of Investor-State Arbitration: Causation, Omission and Implication

(2012) 27(1) ICSID Review 65-86, U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 640
Posted: 27 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2013
Jürgen Kurtz
University of Melbourne - Law School

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international investment law, dispute settlement, investor state arbitration, Australia

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Prudence or Discrimination? Emergency Measures, the Global Financial Crisis and International Economic Law

Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 12, Issue 4, pp. 859-894, 2009
Posted: 28 Dec 2009
Anne van Aaken, Anne van Aaken and Jürgen Kurtz
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective GoodsUniversity of Hamburg, Law School and University of Melbourne - Law School

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The Use and Abuse of WTO Law in Investor-State Arbitration: Competition and its Discontents

European Journal of International Law, Vol. 20, Issue 3, pp. 749-771, 2009
Posted: 26 Oct 2009
Jürgen Kurtz
University of Melbourne - Law School

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The Most Favoured Nation Standard and Foreign Investment: An Uneasy Fit?

Posted: 27 May 2005
Jürgen Kurtz
University of Melbourne - Law School

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most favoured nation,foreign investment,trade descrimation,regulatory autonomy

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WTO, Cancun, Developing Countries, Trade Policy