Monday, November 16, 2015

Bassan: Research Handbook on Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Investment Law

Fabio Bassan (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) has published Research Handbook on Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Investment Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2015). Contents include:
  • Fabio Bassan, Introduction
  • Massimiliano Castelli & Fabio Scacciavillani, SWFs and State investments: A preliminary general overview
  • Fabio Bassan, Sovereign wealth funds: A definition and classification
  • Larry Catá Backer, SWFs in five continents and three narratives: Similarities and differences
  • Locknie Hsu, Santiago GAPPs and codes of conduct: Limits and chances of negotiated rules
  • Kathryn Gordon & Joachim Pohl, Policy frameworks for SWF investments: OECD and host-country perspectives
  • Paul Rose, The Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007: An assessment of its impact on sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises
  • Anna De Luca, The EU and Member States: FDI, portfolio investments, golden powers and SWFs
  • Fabio Bassan, SWFs and taxation: National, bilateral and multilateral approach
  • Giovanna Adinolfi, SWFs and State immunity: Overcoming the contradiction
  • Elizabeth Whitsitt & Todd Weiler, Sovereign wealth funds and bilateral investment treaties’ new models: Issues, new trends and State practice
  • Salar Ghahramani, SWFs and human rights protection
  • Francesco Munari, SWFs and environmental protection
  • Michele Vellano & Annamaria Viterbo, SWFs and development
  • Benjamin J. Richardson & Angela Lee, Social investing without legal imprimatur: The latent possibilities for SWFs