Lorenzo Cotula

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Tenure rights and obligations: towards a more holistic approach to land governance
July 2021
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EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: an appraisal of its sustainable development section
May 2021
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Labour rights in Special Economic Zones: between unilateralism and transnational law diffusion
April 2021
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Contracts in commercial agriculture: enhancing rural producer agency
February 2021
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How contracts affect the agency of rural producers
February 2021
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Towards a political economy of the COVID-19 crisis: Reflections on an agenda for research and action
February 2021
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Public Participation and Investment Treaties: towards a New Settlement?
January 2021
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Raising the cost of climate action? Investor-state dispute settlement and compensation for stranded fossil fuel assets
October 2020
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(Dis)integration in Global Resource Governance: Extractivism, Human Rights, and Investment Treaties
August 2020
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Investment Contracts and International Law: Charting a Research Agenda
July 2020
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The future of land: commercial pressures and the case for systemic law reform to secure rural land rights
May 2020
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“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains
May 2020
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Between Hope and Critique: Human Rights, Social Justice and Re-Imagining International Law from the Bottom Up
April 2020
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‘Blue economy’: why we should talk about investment law
April 2020
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Against the odds: growing producer power in agricultural value chains
April 2020
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Land rights and investments: why the IFC performance standards are not enough: A comparison with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
October 2019
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Land and human rights: Towards a rights-based approach for addressing commercial pressures on land
October 2019
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Cortec Mining Kenya Limited, Cortec (Pty) Limited, and Stirling Capital Limited v. Republic of Kenya
July 2019
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Between Promising Advances and Deepening Concerns: A Bottom-Up Review of Trends in Land Governance 2015–2018
July 2019
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Redress for land and resource rights violations: a legal empowerment agenda
March 2019
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UNCITRAL Working Group III: Can Reforming Procedures Rebalance Investor Rights and Obligations?
March 2019
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Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues? A stocktake of practice in agriculture
February 2019
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Reforming investor-state dispute settlement: what about third-party rights?
February 2019
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Actors of change: can socio-legal empowerment support rural producer agency?
January 2019
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Rural producer agency and agricultural value chains: What role for socio-legal empowerment?
January 2019
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Reconsidering Sovereignty, Ownership and Consent in Natural Resource Contracts: From Concepts to Practice
December 2018
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Special economic zones: engines of development or sites of exploitation?
October 2018
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IIED submission to the online consultation on the Netherlands Draft Model BIT
June 2018
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Raising the bar on responsible investment: what role for investment treaties?
March 2018
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The state of exception and the law of the global economy: a conceptual and empirico-legal inquiry
January 2018