Abstract
This chapter critically examines the scope for Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in a Gulf region trade or investment agreement. ISDS provisions are essentially a group of provisions in a trade or investment agreement that foreign investors can use as an instrument to address foreign investment risk at a macro-level. They are complex and risky instruments which are broadly scoped. ISDS provisions potentially allow for decisions of a State that foreign investors consider lack consistency, transparency and objectivity to be challenged by foreign tribunals.¹ Hence, they are both far-reaching and controversial. The purpose of this chapter, then, is to consider...
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Intellectual Property Rights |
| Subtitle of host publication | Development and Enforcement in the Arab States of the Gulf |
| Editors | David Price, Alhanoof AlDebasi |
| Place of Publication | Berlin, Germany |
| Publisher | Gerlach Press |
| Chapter | 12 |
| Pages | 241-265 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-95994-011-5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-95994-010-8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |