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"Summary:Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars."

"The functionalist perspective on the law relating to international organizations is being replaced by a constitutionalist perspective in light of the need to control international bureaucracies engaging in quasi-sovereign activities or violating rules of international law. For this book, editors Klabbers and Wallendahl (Center of Excellence in Global Governance Research, U. of Helsinki, Finland) bring together contributors from European countries to explore this paradigm shift and how it affects the various doctrinal issues that make up the law of international organizations. A section on general issues addresses topics such as membership and financing in international organizations, dispute settlement, and the role of the International Law Commission. A section on special issues examines areas such as ultra vires doctrine and deformalization of international organization law. Chapters on the EU and the United Nations examine the facets of constitutionalism in international organizations"

"ContentsIntroduction to law -- Agency, partnership, and the limited liability company -- Basics of the corporation -- Piercing the corporate veil -- State law on fiduciary duty of directors and officers -- Federal law regarding duties to shareholders -- The close corporation -- Aspects of the endgame -- Related issues of concern."

""International investment law is best described as a field of public international law which deals with the laws governing the commercial activities of multinational enterprises that are undertaken in foreign states. This occurs when a business or firm decides to open a branch of operations overseas, such as a factory or a mine, and in so doing it may come into conflict with that host state's laws. These may control the nature or extent of the economic activities the firm is allowed to pursue, such as licensing requirements, labor or environmental standards. While this situation may appear to be a matter for resolution by application of domestic laws of the host state through its courts, increasingly recourse is given to international law and international tribunals for answers. International investment law is a species of public international law in the sense that it comprises legal commitments made by sovereign states at the international level as captured by the international investment agreements. While often overlooked, it also has private law elements because the rights (and to a lesser extent obligations) of firms are in some cases formulated by investment contracts between firms and the states in which they operate. In this latter sense, international investment law can be viewed as field of transnational contract law, governed both by domestic legal systems and by the rules of international law"--"