F. I. Shihata, Ibrahim Keywords: Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency | Foreign direct investment | Protection | Mots clefs: Agence multilatérale de garantie des investissements | Investissement | Protection | ABSTRACT Ibrahim Shihata, Vice-President and General Counsel at the World Bank, proposes in his course a systematic study of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and its role in the legal treatment of foreign investment. After a historical review of the establishment of the agency, the author examine…

P. Felicjano, Florentino Keywords: Multinational enterprises | Foreign direct investment | Economic development | International law | Mots clefs: Entreprises internationales | Investissement | ABSTRACT Florentino Feliciano devotes his course to the Legal Problems of International Business Enterprise. In a first part of his course, the author presents the framework of this study, focuses on the process of the private foreign investment, then on the rights claimed in the context of the investment. In the second part of hi…

Sacerdoti, Giorgio Keywords: Foreign direct investment | Treaties | Mots clefs: Investissement | Traités | ABSTRACT In this course, Giorgio Sacerdoti examines and assesses the developments in bilateral treaties and recent initiatives as to multilateral instruments dealing with the promotion and protection of international investments. Investments from abroad have diversified in terms of type, sectors, and countries involved. These changes, in particular, have affected the role of developing countries as recipie…

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Leben, Charles Keywords: Foreign direct investment | State contracts | Law of contracts | Private international law | International arbitration | Mots clefs: Investissement | Contrats d'Etat | Droit des obligations | Droit international privé | Arbitrage international | ABSTRACT A contract of StatLeben, Charles