TY  - BOOK
AU  - Montilla Fernández,Luis Tomás
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Large-Scale Land Investments in Least Developed Countries: Legal Conflicts Between Investment and Human Rights Protection 
T2  - International Law and Economics,
SN  - 9783319652801
AV  - K3820-3836 
U1  - 343.07 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Law
KW  - Private international law
KW  - Conflict of laws
KW  - International law
KW  - Comparative law
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Trade
KW  - Law and economics
KW  - Development economics
KW  - Agricultural economics
KW  - International Economic Law, Trade Law
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Development Economics
KW  - Agricultural Economics
KW  - Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law
KW  - Law and Economics
N1  - Acknowledgements -- I Introductory Part -- II What is 'Land Grabbing' -- III International Law Conundrum -- IV Opportunism in LSLI Contracts: An Economic View -- V Tackling Opportunism in LSLIs -- VI Concluding Remarks
N2  - This book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa's least developed countries from a law and economics perspective. Focusing on the effects of foreign land investments on host countries' local populations and the apparent failure of international law to create incentives to offset them, it also examines the legal and economic mechanisms to hold investors accountable in cases where their investment leads to human rights violations. Applying principal agent and contract theory, it elucidates the sources of opportunism and develops control mechanisms to ameliorate the negative effects. It shows that although judicial mechanisms fail to deliver justice, international law offers alternatives to safeguard against arbitrary and abusive state and investor conduct, and also to effectuate human rights and, thus, tackle opportunistic behaviour
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