Federica Cristani

Institute of International Relations · Centre for International Law

This chapter provides an in-depth analysis of the ways in which gender equality could inform a new paradigm of economic development at the international level. This is based on a review of the current regulatory and policy framework for international investment and sustainable development to identify frameworks that include both explicit and implic...

Italy was the first in Europe which suffered from the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, with around 90,000 estimated victims only in the first 100 days. This Chapter offers on overview of the development of the Italian state of emergency in the first months of the pandemic through the lenses of a variety of themes: policy, democracy, economy, secu...

The 2009 Lisbon Treaty has added an important exclusive competence for the European Union (EU) in the common commercial policy area, namely, foreign direct investment, thus making it a crucial actor in international investment protection. This has a huge impact on shaping international investment policy in Europe and has raised important questions,...

This article explores the regulatory framework of reference of economic cyber-espionage in Europe, with a particular focus on the V4 region (comprising Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic) and taking Hungary as a case study. Europe Union member states, including the V4 countries, are particularly exposed to economic cyber-espionage, be...

I. INTRODUCTION The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has explained: ‘[t]here are synergies between […] investment and competition policies’:² while competition policy (mainly developed at the national level³) aims to guarantee fair market conditions and eliminate anti-competitive behaviour among companies,⁴ investment p...

The present chapter focuses on the role of the Visegrád group (or V4, comprising Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic) in international investment law-making. The chapter starts with a brief overview of the V4 group as a sub-regional system in Europe, including its modus operandi and main achievements in the field of economic cooperatio...

This book focuses on the analysis of the defence of necessity, in particular in the context of investment arbitration. The interest in this topic is strictly related to the recent attention devoted to international investment law by international scholars. The present work offers a systemic study of this issue, with a special focus on the case law...

International Investment Law in Latin America: Problems and Prospects analyses the trend from enthusiasm to diffidence Latin American countries have recently undergone towards investment law. Experts draw lessons from the Continent’s past experiences while identifying possible solutions to the important challenges it faces. En Derecho Internacional...

in Pázmány Law Working Papers Nr. 2016/3 (2016)

The Right to Regulate in International Investment Law by Titi Aikaterini Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2014, 376 pp., € 94; Hardback - Volume 6 Issue 2 - Federica Cristani

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