Bilateral Investment Treaties: A Friend or Foe to Human Rights?
By , February 8, 2012
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This article focuses on a dispute resolution clause found within Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) that addresses corporate=related human rights violations. The article explains how current BITs grant multinational corporations the right to imitate arbitration against a State when the State has failed to fulfill its obligations under the treaty. The author provides suggestions as to how BITs may be restructured to be more effective in resolving disputes over human rights violations.
