Multinational Enterprises and the Law / Edition 2

by Peter T. Muchlinski

Overview

Multinational Enterprises and the Law represents the only comprehensive contemporary and interdisciplinary account of the various techniques used to regulate multinational enterprises (MNEs) at the national, regional and multilateral levels. In it, Peter Muchlinksi analyses the major regulatory areas relating to multinational enterprises and covers the main economic law issues relating to jurisdiction, entry and establishment controls and liberalization, tax, company law, competition and technology transfer. The book also deals with the increasingly prominent demands for corporate social responsibility covering labor, rights, human rights and the environment, and the recent developments in arbitral decisions that give increased importance to the protection standards contained in international investment protection agreements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199227969
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/23/2007
Series:	Oxford International Law Library
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	856
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.34(h) x 1.47(d)

About the Author

Peter Muchlinski is Professor in International Commercial Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Prior to joining SOAS he was Professor of Law and International Business at Kent Law School, University of Kent (2001-5). He has taught at the London School of Economics (1983-1998), where he is a Visiting Professor, and was the Drapers' Professor of Law in the Law Department of Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, from 1998 to 2001. He specializes in international and European business law, WTO law and practice, competition law, law and development and commercial regulation, in which fields he has authored numerous papers and articles. His more recent published work concentrates on the social dimension of the regulation of international business, the effects of the Enron collapse, the developing arbitral case-law arising out of investor-State disputes and the impact of globalization on legal research methodology. In 1990 he qualified as a barrister in the field of commercial and European law and is a door tenant at Brick Court Chambers, London. He acts as a principal adviser to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on investment law issues and in 2006-7 was a Special Adviser to the International Commission of Jurists Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crime. During the period of June-October 2003 he was on leave of absence from Kent Law School and worked at UNCTAD in Geneva as a Senior Legal Expert in the Division on Investment Technology and Enterprise Development.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Table of Treaties
Table of EC Materials
Table of Official Publications of Governments and International Organisations
Abbreviations
Part I The Conceptual Framework
1: Getting to Know Multinationals
2: Business and Legal Forms of Multinational Enterprise: Towards a Theory of Control
3: Regulating Multinationals
Part II Economic Regulation by Home and Host Countries
4: The Jurisdictional Limits of Regulation through National or Regional Law
5: The Control of Inward Investment by Host States
6: Measures for the Encouragement of Inward Direct Investment
7: Taxation Problems Associated With MNEs
8: Group Liability and Directors' Duties
9: Corporate Governance and Disclosure
10: Regulation through Competition Law
11: Technology Transfer
Part III The Social Dimension
12: Labour Relations
13: Human Rights and Multinational Enterprises
14: Environmental Issues
Part IV International Investment Regulation
15: The Control of Investment Risks I: Contractual Stability, Renegotiation, Taking of Property and Investment Guarantees
16: Control of Investment Risks II: Non-Discrimination, Fair and Equitable Treatment and Full Protection and Security
17: The Codification of International Standards For the Treatment of Foreign Investors
18: The Settlement of International Investment Disputes
Index

Editorial Reviews

"A Fascinating, comprehensive and sometimes very detailed book covering all major legal (and sometimes other important) aspects and issues related to the MNE. It explains well the history and evolution of various models and the theories behind them, and provides ideas on forthcoming ways of regulation. Recommended for anyone involved in international business as well as officials dealing with the subject matter. It is both a reference for specific issues and a book well worth reading on a stand-alone basis."
—Leif Gustafsson, International Company and Commercial Law Review

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