Public Purpose in International Law - Martinez-Fraga, Pedro J.; Reetz, C. Ryan
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This text explores how the public purpose doctrine reconciles the often conflicting, but equally binding, obligations that states have to engage in regulatory sovereignty while honoring host-state obligations to protect foreign investment. The work examines the multiple permutations and iterations of the public purpose doctrine and concludes that this principle needs to be reconceptualized to meet the imperatives of economic globalization and of a new paradigm of sovereignty that is based on the interdependence, and not independence, of states. It contends that the historical expression of the…mehr

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This text explores how the public purpose doctrine reconciles the often conflicting, but equally binding, obligations that states have to engage in regulatory sovereignty while honoring host-state obligations to protect foreign investment. The work examines the multiple permutations and iterations of the public purpose doctrine and concludes that this principle needs to be reconceptualized to meet the imperatives of economic globalization and of a new paradigm of sovereignty that is based on the interdependence, and not independence, of states. It contends that the historical expression of the public purpose doctrine in customary and conventional international law is fraught with fundamental flaws that, if not corrected, will give rise to disparities in the relationship between investors and states, asymmetries with respect to industrialized nations and developing states, and, ultimately, process legitimacy concerns.
Autorenporträt
Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga is a partner in Bryan Cave LLP's International Arbitration and Litigation Practice Group, where he is the firm's co-leader and the co-founder of the Miami office. He has represented eight countries as lead counsel, and he has served in ICSID (World Bank) proceedings. Martinez-Fraga graduated from St John's College, Annapolis (B.A., summa cum laude); Columbia University, New York (J.D.), where he was Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; and holds a Ph.D. (international law) (cum laude) from Universidad Complutence de Madrid. He has published more than fifty articles in fifteen countries, which have been translated into five languages, and has written five books on public and private international law.