The Regulation of the Global Water Services Market (Hardcover)

List of contributors; Foreword Laurence Boisson De Chazournes; 1. Introduction Julien Chaisse; Part I. International Economic Law in Motion: Rules, Issues and Disputes: 2. Are investments in water different? Sectoral economics, investment treaty architecture, and the role of governance N. Jansen Calamita; 3. The erosion of the concept of public service in water concessions: evidence from investor-state arbitration Fernando Dias Simoes; 4. International investment agreements and water resources management Aline Baillat; 5. Water is not medicine: the tension between access to water and intellectual property rights in the area of water technologies Bryan Mercurio and Antoine Martin; Part II. Challenge of Balancing Economic and Non-Economic Policy Objectives: 6. Right to water in the shadow of trade liberalization Chien-Huei Wu and Helen Hai-Ning Huang; 7. Protecting the human right to water through the regulation of multinational enterprises Markus Krajewski; 8. Water and sanitation services in international trade and investment law: for a holistic human rights based approach Leila Choukroune; 9. Foreign governmental suppliers' investment: profit or aid? The case study of a Japanese city water bureau Shintaro Hamanaka; 10. The drip, drip of depletion: solving the tragedy of the commons in global water usage Bryan Druzin; Part III. Regional Patterns in the Law of Water Services: 11. The regulation of water services in the European Union internal market Panagiotis Delimatsis; 12. External competences of the EU in the field of water services trade and regulation Christoph Herrmann; 13. Fragmentation of water policies in ASEAN: potential role of the ASEAN community Sufian Jusoh, Hayatunnisah Sulaiman, Suzarika Sahak and Karamjit Singh; 14. Water management in Central Asia: the role of energy, trade and investment law Anatole Boute; 15. Conclusion: 'Blue Gold' regulatory and economic challenges Pierre Sauve; Bibliography; Index.