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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.