YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions 2020

This book presents the very first, interdisciplinarily grounded, comprehensive appraisal of a future “Common European Law on Investment Screening”. Thereby, it provides a foundation for a European administrative law framework for investment screening by setting out viable solutions and evaluating their pros and cons.Daimler, the harbour terminal in Zeebrugge, or Saxo Bank are only three recent examples of controversially discussed company takeovers in Europe. The “elephant in the room” is China and its “Belt and Road Initiative”. The political will in Europe is growing to more actively control investments flowing into the EU. The current regulatory initiatives raise several fundamental, constitutional and regulatory issues. Surprisingly, they have not been addressed in any depth so far. The book takes stock of the current rather fragmented regulatory approaches and combines contributions from leading international academics, practitioners, and policy makers in their respective fields. Due to the volume’s comprehensive approach, it is expected to influence the broader debate on the EU’s upcoming regulation of this matter.The book is addressed to participants from academia as well as to representatives from government, business, and civil society.

Steffen Hindelang is a professor (wsr) at the Department of Law of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. He teaches and researches in the areas of international economic law, esp. international investment law, EU law and German public law. Previously he was a professor at Freie Universität Berlin (2011-2017), senior research associate and senior lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2010-2011), and research associate and lecturer at the University of Tübingen (2004-2009). He is also senior fellow at the Walter Hallstein Institute of European Constitutional Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and academic advisor to the International Investment Law Centre Cologne (IILCC). He was guest professor, among others, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Uppsala as a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond – Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Swedish Prize Laureate, at Nagoya University, Bocconi University Milan, the University of Lausanne, the Charles University Prague, the International Law School of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), and the Turkish-German University Istanbul.Andreas Moberg is a senior lecturer and associate professor at the Department of Law of the University of Gothenburg. He is also the assistant director of CERGU (Center for European Research at the University of Gothenburg). He teaches and researches both EU law and Public international law, but specializes in EU Constitutional law. He has lectured in EU law as a visiting professor at Bond University (Australia), San Pablo CEU Madrid and Háskóla Islands Reykjavík.