Near the fiftieth anniversary of ICSID, the international organization of the World Bank Group specialized in international investment dispute settlement, the organization has become nearly synonymous with the field of international investment law.  But how and why this … [Read more...]

This article suggests the need for a richer intellectual history of seventeenth-century international law than that typically on offer—one more sensitive to humanist methods, literary texts, and aspects of embodied vulnerability that tend to be obscured as “law of … [Read more...]

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This contribution embraces a purely utilitarian view of European Union law in suggesting a viable way to enlarge the horizon of opportunities of the holders of the so-called “non-citizen” status in the Republic of Latvia, which is reserved for some ethnic minorities … [Read more...]

Procedural standards of participation have the capacity to structure and constrain the exercise of authority. Focusing on the way decisions are formed, this paper argues that the depletion of such standards in processes of reception of trans- and international decisions within … [Read more...]