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Alessandra Arcuri

Alessandra Arcuri is a Professor of International and European Law at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

POSTS BY Alessandra Arcuri

17 June 2020

Alessandra Arcuri, Federica Violi, Sophia Paulini, Stephanie Triefus

Investment Law in Corona Times: How Myths Fuel Injustice

One of the leitmotivs of the discourse around the pandemic is that ‘there cannot be going back to business as usual’ (see here and here). Yet, it is business as usual that is alarmingly looming in Corona times. In this context, at least two developments are worthy of note: the first is the much discussed risk of a wave of Covid-related investment claims. The second, possibly less noticed, is that countries are silently expanding the scope of a system that does not adequately strengthen sustainability in economic relations, despite laconic initiatives to this purpose. Continue reading >>

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06 February 2020

Alessandra Arcuri, Francesco Costamagna, Antoine Vauchez

In Defense of Academic Freedom and Autonomy

We, members of the academic community, hereby express our full support to the Editors-in-Chiefs, the Editorial and Scientific Advisory Board who resigned en masse from the European Law Journal, owned by Wiley. The conduct of the publishing house has shown total lack of appreciation of the values of academic integrity and autonomy. The Scientific Board’s brave move seeks not to be praised as heroic, but it firmly posits decency and respect for these principles above all other considerations. Continue reading >>

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