Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Constitutional Challenges and Pitfalls

Policy and practice of EU foreign investment law is utterly divided. On the one hand, the Commission has long advocated against the validity of investment agreements between Member States. Siding with its arguments, the Court of Justice has recently confi

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Mads Andenas Luca Pantaleo Matthew Happold Cristina Contartese Editors

EU External Action in International Economic Law

Mads Andenas Luca Pantaleo Matthew Happold Cristina Contartese •





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EU External Action in International Economic Law Recent Trends and Developments

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Editors Mads Andenas Faculty of Law University of Oslo Oslo, Norway

Luca Pantaleo Department of Political and Social Sciences University of Cagliari Cagliari, Italy

Matthew Happold Université du Luxembourg Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Cristina Contartese Hague University of Applied Sciences The Hague, The Netherlands

ISBN 978-94-6265-390-0 ISBN 978-94-6265-391-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-391-7

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EU External Action in International Economic Law and the Challenges Posed by the EU’s Hybrid Nature . . . . . . . . . . Mads Andenas and Luca Pantaleo Emerging Principles of European Investment Protection—After the Example of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nanette Neuwahl Pushing Limits: The Principle of Autonomy in the External Relations Case Law of the European Court of Justice . . . . . . . . . . Jan Willem van Rossem The European Parliament’s Role in the EU Treaty-Making Procedure from Primary Law to Inter-institutional Agreements and Internal Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stefania Lucente The European Union’s External Trade and Investment Policy Post-Lisbon: Competence, Procedure and Scope of Action . . . . . . . Gesa Kübek

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Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Constitutional Challenges and Pitfalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Hannes Lenk

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The Consensual Termination of Investment Agreements Between EU Member States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Clemens Wackernag