Pushkar Anand Rathore 🇮🇳

PhD Candidate @Macquarie_Uni, @Macquarie_Law, @MacquarieCEL; Assistant Professor @UnivofDelhi; alum @SouthAsianUni; @cnlu_official; International Law and all.

[MQ Environmental Law Research Centre @MacquarieELRC]

Join us for a crucial discussion on the #MarianaDamDisaster & the world's largest environmental #classaction.
Feat. Indigenous Brazilian🇧🇷 reps & @PogustGoodhead CEO, #TomGoodhead.
🗓️ Thurs 10 Oct 2024
⏰ 4-5:30pm AEDT
📍 In-person & online
🔗 Register: https://t.co/jtAtJRHJCQ

[Surya Deva @ProfSuryaDeva]

It was wonderful for @MacquarieCEL to collaborate with @OHCHR_Pacific @UoSLawSchool & @GNHRECommunity for this workshop on protecting EHRDs in the Pacific! @ConstantinYiall

[Pushkar Anand Rathore 🇮🇳 @pushkararathore]

This is the reply to RTI request to disclose the India-UAE BIT. Quite interesting. The reason for non-disclosure is "that it has not yet been released in the public domain..." It is utterly incomprehensible what the government fears when it comes to investment treaties & arb.

[Prabhash Ranjan @pranjan12781]

India recently signed a BIT with Uzbekistan (text not available). This is the fifth BIT (excluding the one with Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre) India has signed after adopting the Model BIT in 2015/2016. The ones signed with Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan resemble the Model (1/2)

[Prabhash Ranjan @pranjan12781]

CJI, DY Chandrachud recently linked India's fear of Investor-State Arbitration to the lack of 'professionalization of arbitration' in India.
@pushkararathore and I counter this view.

https://t.co/qOo22TKzLu

[Surya Deva @ProfSuryaDeva]

📢The 2024 @MacquarieCEL Annual Lecture will take place on 4 Sep 2024 (6-7:30pm).

We are delighted to have Dr Virginia Marshall @ANURegNet delivering the lecture.

Join the lecture in-person or virtually. Register here: https://t.co/4IlrTBg1EQ

[MQ Environmental Law Research Centre @MacquarieELRC]

🌿 Exciting announcement!🌿
Registrations are now open for our highly anticipated 2024 #AnnualLecture, presented this year by Dr Virginia Marshall from @ourANU!

📅 Wednesday, 4 Sep
⏲️ 6-7:30 PM
📍 @Macquarie_Uni City Campus
🖥️ Zoom available
🔗 Register: https://t.co/eGHc1Zwsem

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

In this new paper we calculate the unequal exchange of labour between the global North and global South. The results are quite staggering. You'll want to look at this... 🧵

https://t.co/fEbCmRZuyJ

[Constantinos Yiallourides @ConstantinYiall]

My comment for @straits_times on the #ITLOS Advisory Opinion on #climatechange and its significant contribution to international environmental jurisprudence & global efforts to protect oceans from climate change impacts. #UNCLOS #LawoftheSea @Macquarie_Uni @AusSMC @MacquarieCEL

[Constantinos Yiallourides @ConstantinYiall]

Excited to share our latest on the @BIICL blog: “A Commentary on ITLOS' Advisory Opinion on Climate Change” - with @ProfSuryaDeva @Macquarie_Uni #UNCLOS #LawoftheSea #ClimateChange @MacquarieCEL 🔖Read it here: https://t.co/PUkDaOqIL6

[India at UN, Geneva @IndiaUNGeneva]

Taking forward #RightToDevelopment !

@ProfSuryaDeva met PR @abagchimea and discussed ways to further strengthen India’s constructive engagement with the @UNSRdevelopment mandate.

@MEAIndia

[Guillaume Long @GuillaumeLong]

🇪🇨 Very, very proud of Ecuador and of our people for having voted against the return of investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms (ISDS) in yesterdays’s referendum.

A few words of context:

This is the second time that the Ecuadorian people say No to ISDS and its international arbitration courts by means of a direct vote at the ballot box. The first time was in the 2008 constitutional referendum when a new constitution, including article 422 banning ISDS, was submitted to a popular vote.

Then came the hard task of exiting ISDS commitments which the government and legislators managed to do. But it took 8 years to fully achieve this, in the face of powerful lobbies doing their utmost to uphold ISDS.

Ecuador first withdrew from ICSID and then terminated 24 bilateral investment treaties. I’m proud to have notified Ecuador’s withdrawal from 16 such investment treaties.

With the restoration of the elite pact orchestrated by the Moreno government from 2017, the Ecuadorian oligarchs, now in power, tried to overturn the constitutional prohibition and reintroduce ISDS. Companies owned by Ecuadorians but registered abroad (tax evasion plays a big role in this story) and large transnational corporations were eager to return to a system which allowed them to evade Ecuadorian laws. They managed to re-rejoin ICSID and attempted, via sympathetic constitutional court judges, to allow for the signing of new bilateral investment treaties, but without success.

Hence the importance for them of this referendum and the question: "Do you agree that the Ecuadorian State recognise international arbitration as a method to solve investment, contractual or commercial disputes?". But 63% of voters said No: a hard blow to the ISDS system, with national, regional and global repercussions.

Congratulations to Ecuador, to our people and to all those who fought hard, in spite of the non-level playing field of this electoral campaign, for the triumph of the No to ISDS.

It’s a No to the primacy of capital over human beings. A No to injustice and impunity. And a Yes to people, the environment, sovereignty, and democracy.

🇪🇨 🇪🇨 🇪🇨

[Pushkar Anand Rathore 🇮🇳 @pushkararathore]

@pranjan12781 Many many congratulations sir 🙂

[Prabhash Ranjan @pranjan12781]

I am delighted to share that my second book, 'India and Investor-State Dispute Settlement', is finally out! The book is part of the 'Routledge Research in International Economic Law' series and is a sequel to my first book on India and BITs, published in 2019.

Feeling blessed!

[Ben Heath @jbentonheath]

I cannot overstate how much Ive learned from Nicolas and Lorenzo’s fieldwork on this case. An absolute must-read

[Aurreratze @Aurreratze]

Pleased to share my new #bizhumanrights article examining the case of the bottom-up campaign against Rio Tinto’s Jadar lithium project in Serbia, published in the Australian Journal of Human Rights #responsiblebusiness #sustainability 1/2 https://t.co/Yuk9mnMCur

[Olena Uvarova @BHRinUkraine]

Just kind reminder: looking forward for your abstracts for the Annual Conference of the Global BHR Scholars Association and of the Teaching BHR Forum hosted by the Law Group at Wageningen University on 12-13 September 2024, The Netherlands. https://t.co/v3pAK6Jm8G

[Prabhash Ranjan @pranjan12781]

I write in today's Hindu welcoming the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice on legal education.

To improve the quality of legal education in India, we need inspiring and visionary law professors in leadership roles.

[Constantinos Yiallourides @ConstantinYiall]

Colleagues in #Sydney, please join us for an in-person evening research seminar on Oceanic #CarbonStorage presented by Prof. Alexander Proelss @juraunihamburg. Tue 27 February, at 6 PM. Registration info below. #LawoftheSea #Energy #CCS. @Macquarie_Uni

https://t.co/DfIeXGOBpr

[Surya Deva @ProfSuryaDeva]

@MacquarieCEL held its first retreat in the new @Macquarie_Law building. Thanks everyone for all the great ideas. Looking forward to working together to implement some of these ideas! @ConstantinYiall @PGovindAcademic @abduarif @pushkararathore

[United Nations in India @UNinIndia]

"We need economic growth & development. If the divide between rich & poor keeps increasing, then the growth is unsustainable. It will create conflicts. It is immoral & unethical to have a society where certain people are left behind by design."

- @ProfSuryaDeva @UNSRdevelopment