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Fairness as Balance: Investor Obligations and Investment Treaty Reform (2024)
Journal Article
Van Der Ploeg, K. P. (2024). Fairness as Balance: Investor Obligations and Investment Treaty Reform. International Investment Law Journal, 4(2), 184-197. https://doi.org/10.62768/IILJ/2024/4/2/05

The normative asymmetry between the rights and obligations of investors and host states under investment treaties has been a key reason for the treaties’ common characterization as “unbalanced”. While initially a description of a justified treaty des... Read More about Fairness as Balance: Investor Obligations and Investment Treaty Reform.

Investor Obligations: Transformative and Regressive Impacts of the Business and Human Rights Framework (2024)
Journal Article
Van der Ploeg, K. P. (2024). Investor Obligations: Transformative and Regressive Impacts of the Business and Human Rights Framework. Business and Human Rights Journal, https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2024.8

The business and human rights (BHR) framework has regularly been considered the superior legal regime of corporate accountability for business-related human rights abuses, which must be both protected from and incorporated into investment treaties. H... Read More about Investor Obligations: Transformative and Regressive Impacts of the Business and Human Rights Framework.

The Functional Threshold: Direct International Legal Regulation of Collective Nonstate Entities and the Law of International Peace and Security (2020)
Journal Article
Van der Ploeg, K. P. (2021). The Functional Threshold: Direct International Legal Regulation of Collective Nonstate Entities and the Law of International Peace and Security. New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, 53(1), 71-133

This article explores transformations in international law with respect to collective nonstate entities, challenging the mainstream view that international law stipulates rights and obligations directly binding on such entities only on an exceptional... Read More about The Functional Threshold: Direct International Legal Regulation of Collective Nonstate Entities and the Law of International Peace and Security.

State Immunity in Jurisprudence of Czech Courts (2014)
Journal Article
Van der Ploeg, K. P. (2014). State Immunity in Jurisprudence of Czech Courts. Czech Yearbook of International Law, 5, 421-450

Th is paper discusses the understanding and application of the doctrine of State immunity in the courts of the Czech Republic. In 2008, the Czech Supreme Court reversed its previous conceptualization of State immunity as absolute and introduced a res... Read More about State Immunity in Jurisprudence of Czech Courts.