Riddhi Dasgupta

Clare Hall

Expropriation in International Investment Regimes

This dissertation tackles the standards used by international investment, human rights and dispute settlement tribunals in expropriation cases. The research connects the procedural doctrines, such as the exhaustion of local remedies and continuous nationality, with the substantive treatment (non-discrimination, fair and equitable treatment & minimum standards of treatment). Consent and sovereignty play an important role in the dissertation. The dissertation offers several subsidiary conclusions (to affect the area for the next 20-30 years) but its main conclusions insist on dialogue between the international tribunals and the political actors who keep them in place. The dissertation will soon be published as a book entitled "International Interplay: Future of Expropriation Across International Dispute Settlement."

Start Date: 2008/10.

End Date: 2011/11.

2011 - Ph.D., University of Cambridge

2008 - M.Sc., University of Oxford

2007 - B.A., Columbia University, New York

International Law (Arbitration, Trade, Human Rights)

Law and Economics

Constitutional Law

 

• International Interplay: Expropriation Across International Dispute Settlement (forthcoming book) (2012-13).

 

• Constitutionality of Torture in a Ticking-Bomb Scenario: History, Compelling Governmental Interests, and Supreme Court Precedents, 30 PACE L. REV. 544 (2010).

 

• Conflict of Constitutional Proportions: Treaty Power in Constitutional Law, and American Federalism versus NAFTA Chapter Eleven, 3 INT’L J. PVT. L. 221 (2010).

 

• Texas Law's “Life or Death” Rule in Capital Sentencing: Scrutinizing Eighth Amendment Violations and the Case of Juan Guerrero, 41 ST. MARY’S L. J. 231 (2010) (co-authored with John Niland).

 

• Regulating the Creation of States: From Decolonization to Secession, 6 TOR. J. INT’L. REL. 344 (2011) (research assistance to Professor Tom D. Grant, Cambridge).

 

• Foreign Law in America’s Constitutional Cases, 6 STANFORD RES. J. 67 (2007).

 

• “Structure and Procedure of Vetting United States Military Officials for War Crimes,” Vetting Mechanisms for the National Army of the Democratic Republic of Congo: International Case Studies, Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR), UNIV. OF OXFORD (2008).

 

• Retroactive Consequences: Why Answers are Needed Now on the Guantánamo Bay Detainee Appeals and What the Supreme Court Can Do, 4 CAMBRIDGE ST. L. REV. 267 (2009).

 

• Comment, Boumediene v. Bush: A Civil Liberties Dispute Garbed as a War Case, 36 HASTINGS CON. L. QUARTERLY 425 (2009).

 

• Brownlie, Principles of International Law (James Crawford, ed.) (edited Ch 8 – “Status of Territories” for the 2011 edition).

 

• Certiorari Petitions to the United States Supreme Court (Guerrero v. Texas, 08-9534 (2009), Doster v. Texas, 09-10377 (2010), Barrientos v. Texas, 10-9729 (2011)), Merits Brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit en banc (Rivers v. Thaler, 09-70031 (2010)) on behalf of the Texas Defender Service (TDS). 

Dr. Martin Dixon, University of Cambridge

Dr. Markus Gehring, University of Cambridge

Dr. Kate Miles, University of Sydney