Linkages and Boundaries in Private and Public International Law.

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Systemic Dialogue: Identifying Commonalities and Exploring Linkages in Private and Public International Law -- I. Mutually Strengthening Dialogue -- II. Discerning Synergies and Shared Values in International Law -- III. Functional Commonalities in International Law -- IV. Exploring Linkages and Boundaries in International Law -- V. Conclusion -- Part I: Discerning Synergies and Shared Values in International Law -- 1. Connecting Public and Private International Law -- I. Introduction -- II. Sources -- III. Connections -- IV. Conclusions -- 2. Windows in International Law -- I. Introduction -- II. Roman Interpretation: Between Strict and Flexible Legal Analysis -- III. Private and Public International Law as Professionally Distinct Fields -- IV. New Descriptive Tools for Private and Public International Law -- V. Windows, (De)coders and Travellers in Private and Public International Law -- VI. Public International Law -- VII. Concluding Remarks -- 3. 'International' Rules in an Internal Setting -- I. Introduction -- II. Case Study: The United Kingdom -- III. Conclusion -- Part II: Functional Commonalities in International Law -- 4. Jurisdiction: Betwixt Unilateralism and Global Coordination -- I. Introduction -- II. Jurisdiction: 'Many, Too Many, Meanings' -- III. Trends towards a Global 'System'? -- IV. Bases of Jurisdiction -- V. Jurisdiction in Private International Law: Global Connectivity and 'Justice Pluralism' -- VI. Public International Law Jurisdiction: Somewhere between Law and Power -- VII. Improving Coordination of Jurisdictional Frameworks in Private and Public International Law -- VIII. Conclusions -- 5. On the Dwindling Divide between the Public and Private: The Role of Soft Law Instruments in Global Governance.

I. Introduction: Global Governance and the Confluence of Public and Private International Law -- II. 'Softness' in Public International Law: 'Deformalisation' and the Emergence of Global Governance -- III. Soft Law as Governance Technique: The Case of Private International Law -- IV. Responding to Law's Globalisation? Order and Justice within Contemporary Frameworks -- 6. The Role of Global Values in the Evaluation of Public Policy in International Investment and Commercial Arbitration -- I. Introduction -- II. Public Policy as an Exception to Compliance with International Obligations -- III. Public Policy and the Difficulties in its Definition -- IV. Public Policy as a Narrow Exception in Private International Law and a Broad Defence in Public International Law -- V. Types of Global Values that Influence International Arbitration -- VI. Incidence of Global Values in the Interpretation of Public Policy in International and Commercial and Investment Arbitration -- VII. Conclusions -- Part III: Exploring Linkages and Boundaries in International Law -- 7. Reconciling Human Rights and Supply Chain Management through Corporate Social Responsibility -- I. Introduction -- II. CSR and Global Supply Chain Management: The Developing Legal Framework -- III. The Barriers in Public International Law -- IV. The Barriers in Private International Law -- V. Case Study of the Mobile Phone Industry -- VI. Towards a Hybrid Regulatory Approach: Transcending the Limits of Private and Public International Law -- VII. Conclusion -- 8. Realising the Objectives of Public International Environmental Law through Private Contracts: the Need for a Dialogue with Private International Law Scholars -- I. Introduction -- II. The Nagoya Protocol and Ad Hoc Private Contracts -- III. Standardised Contractual Clauses under the International Treaty -- IV. Overall Reflection.

9. International Investment Arbitration and the Arduous Route to Transparency -- I. Introduction -- II. History -- III. International Commercial Arbitration in Private International Law: Confidentiality and Privacy as the Norm -- IV. Investor-State Arbitration in Public International Law: Transparency as the Demand -- V. Clash of Public Values with Functional Approaches -- VI. How Private Values and Public Values Meet -- VII. Dispute Settlement in the Proposed TTIP, TPP and CETA -- VIII. Conclusions -- 10. Protecting Whistleblowers: The Roles of Public and Private International Law -- I. Introduction -- II. Regulatory Approaches to Whistleblowing: Protection and Incentives -- III. Domestic UK Whistleblowing Regulation -- IV. Private International Law -- V. The Contribution of Public International Law to Whistleblowing -- VI. Which States are Responsible for Providing Protection in a Cross-border Disclosure? -- VII. Conclusions -- Index.

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