Governing the Extractive Sector: Regulating the Foreign Conduct of International Mining Firms

This book considers, and offers solutions to, the problems faced by local communities and the environment with respect to global mining.

The author explores the idea of grievance mechanisms in the home states of the major mining conglomerates. These grievance mechanisms should be functional, pragmatic and effective at resolving disputes between mining enterprises and impacted communities. The key to this provocative solution is twofold: the proposal harnesses the power of industry-sponsored dispute mechanisms to reduce the costs and other burdens on home state governments and judicial systems. Critically, civil society actors will be given a role as both advocates and mediators in order to achieve a fair result for those impacted abroad by extractive enterprises.

Compelling, engaging and timely, this book presents an innovative approach for regulating the foreign conduct of the extractive sector.

Author: Jeffrey Bone
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 10/20/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781509944750

About the Author
Bone, Jeffrey: - Jeffrey Bone is Assistant Professor of Business Law at the Erivan K. Haub School of Business, Saint Joseph's University.Baltag, Crina: -

Crina Baltag is Senior Lecturer in International Arbitration at Stockholm University and a qualified attorney-at-law since 2004, with extensive practice in various aspects of international dispute resolution, private and public international law. Dr Baltag is member of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Institute (SCC) Board and has been appointed in numerous arbitrations, as sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, and CCIR-Romania.

Dr Baltag's publications include The Energy Charter Treaty: The Notion of Investor [2012]; ICSID Convention after 50 Years: Unsettled Issues [2017]; The Future of Investment Treaty Arbitration in the EU [co-editor, 2020], etc. and numerous publications in leading legal journals and reviews, including on the Denial of Benefits in Investment Law [co-author; Max Planck Encyclopaedia of International Procedural Law, 2019].

Dr Baltag is the editor of Kluwer Arbitration Blog, co-managing editor of ITA Arbitration Report and member of editorial boards of prestigious journals in the field, including of the Journal of International Arbitration. Dr Baltag holds a PhD degree in International Arbitration from Queen Mary University of London (UK), LL.M in International Commercial Arbitration Law from Stockholm University (Sweden), M.Sc. in International Business from Academy of Economic Studies (Romania), and LL.B. from University of Bucharest (Romania).Reins, Leonie: - "

Leonie Reins is Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society ('TILT') at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Leonie obtained her PhD from KU Leuven, Belgium. The monograph based on her dissertation is entitled Regulating Shale Gas - The Challenge of Coherent Environmental and Energy Regulation (2017). Leonie obtained private sector experience whilst working for a Brussels-based environmental law consultancy, providing legal and policy services for public-sector clients such as the European Commission and the European Parliament.

Leonie's research focuses on the intersections of energy and environmental law. She is particularly interested in the regulation of new technologies that are capable of mitigating, or providing means of adaptation to, global problems such as climate change and the associated risks and uncertainty that manifest themselves at the local level. Leonie regularly speaks at international conferences and her works have been published in journals such as Energy Research & Social Science, Environmental Liability and Oil, Gas, Energy Law Intelligence (OGEL)."
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