1st Edition

Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration

By Valentina Vadi Copyright 2013
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Is a State free to adopt measures to protect the public health of its citizens? If so, what are the limits, if any, to such regulatory powers? This book addresses these questions by focusing on the clash between the regulatory autonomy of the state and international investment governance. As a wide variety of state regulations allegedly aimed at protecting public health may interfere with foreign... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: Foreign Direct Investments and Public Health: Defining and Connecting the Two Fields  1. International Investment Law  2. Public Health in Contemporary International Law and Policy  3. The Interplay between Public Health and Foreign Direct Investments  Part 2: The Interplay of Foreign Investment and Public Health in Practice  4. Access to Medicines and International Investment Law: Pharmaceutical Patents as Investments  5. Trademark Protection v. Tobacco Control in International Investment Law  6. The Environmental Health Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment in International Investment Law  Part 3: Reconciling Public Health with Investor Rights in International Investment Law  7. Reconciling Public Health with Investors’ Rights in International Investment Law: Substantive Aspects  8. Conclusions

Biography

Dr. Valentina Vadi is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She holds degrees in law from the University of Siena, the European University Institute and the University of Oxford. She has lectured in international investment law in several countries and has published extensively in this area.