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Author Puvimanasinghe, Shyami Fernando.

Title Foreign investment, human rights and the environment : a perspective from South Asia on the role of public international law for development / by Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe
Published Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages)
Contents Foreword -- M. Sornarajah; Preface -- S. Subedi; Introduction -- N. Schrijver and K. Arts; Acknowledgements; Table of Treaties and other International Instruments; Table of Statutes; Table of Cases; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: The Context and Concepts of this Study; Chapter Three: Transnational Corporations and Public International Law; Chapter Four: International Law Standards: Three Dimensions; Chapter Five: The Roles of Home and Host States; Chapter Six: Regional and National Arrangements; Chapter Seven: The Interventions of Non-State Actors
Summary Embodies a critique of the complex web of public international law principles on economics, human rights and the environment, and their convergence or lack thereof, related regional (South Asian) and domestic (Sri Lankan) legal arrangements, interventions of states and non-state actors towards just, equitable and sustainable development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Law and economic development
Environmental law, International.
Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation.
Sustainable development -- Law and legislation -- South Asia
Human rights -- South Asia
Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation -- South Asia
Environmental law -- South Asia
LAW -- International.
Environmental law
Environmental law, International
Human rights
Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation
Law and economic development
Sustainable development -- Law and legislation
South Asia.
Foreign direct investment.
Economic development.
Sustainable development.
Environmental law.
Public international law.
Human rights.
South Asia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047419976
9047419979
9004156860
9789004156869