Many existing studies focus on disputes and resolutions but often overlook the transformation of disputes. Based on an analysis of case filing, this article explains how various factors of daily life enter the legal world through dispute formatting. When disputes are developed into lawsuits, the systematic logic of law and the logic of daily life constantly interact with each other. Dispute for...

ABSTRACT This article responds to the growing risk of Investor–State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) claims arising from states’ measures mitigate climate change, such as fossil fuel phase-outs. It proposes a carve-out that would cover are adopted in good faith and have reasonable causal nexus with reducing stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions (e.g. ‘related to’ this aim). Depending on preferences, c...

Where there are cases of underdetermination in scientiac controversies, such as the case of the molecular clock, scientists may direct the course and terms of dispute by playing off the multidimensional framework of theory evaluation. This is because assessment strategies themselves are underdetermined. Within the framework of assessment, there are a variety of trade-offs between different stra...

Az úgynevezett Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) eljárást alapvetően a fogadó állam és külföldi beruházó közötti viták elrendezésére alakították ki. Ám ugyanakkor az kiváltó tényállásban nem feltétlenül központi állami szervek jelennek meg ellenfeleként először, sokszor egy helyi vagy regionális önkormányzat kerül szembe beruházóval, ez vita terebélyesedik ki idővel ISDS eljárássá. eljár...

The previous movement of Government Indonesia (GOI) to terminate its expiring Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) with many countries does not mean like the end point rigorous policy. It then leaves a question mark about legal standing after concession and how government establishes new model create balance in BIT. This research is conducted to, firstly, analyze position foreign investor termi...

Institutional investor is supposed to be more powerful than individual investor from the perspectives of regularity authority and scholar, but the results are mixed. Using the data of listed company in China, the paper presents a comparative study on the impacts of institutional investor and individual investor on investment risk. It shows that the scale and ownership of institutional investor ...