Alternative Visions of the International Law on Foreign Investment

Essays in Honour of Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
Herausgeber: Lim, C L

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the forces that are reshaping the international law on foreign investment today. It begins by explaining the liberal origins of contemporary investment treaties before addressing a current backlash against these treaties and the device of investment arbitration. The book describes a long-standing legal-intellectual resistance to a neo-liberal global economic agenda, and how tribunals have interpreted various treaty standards instead. It introduces our reader to the changes now taking place in the design of a range of familiar treaty clauses, and it describes how some of these changes are now driven not only by developing and emerging economies but also by the capital-exporting nations. Finally, it explores the life, career and writings of Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, a scholar whose work has been dedicated to the realisation of many of these changes, and his views about the hold global capital has over legal practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 529
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 155mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 971g
• ISBN-13: 9781107139060
• ISBN-10: 1107139066
• Artikelnr.: 44264805

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Acknowledgements; List of treaties, national legislation, cases
and awards; Part I: 1. The worm's view of history and the twailing machine
C. L. Lim; 2. The liberal vision of the international law on foreign
investment Kenneth J. Vandevelde; 3. Caveat investors - where do things
stand now? Leon Trakman and David Musayelyan; Part II: 4. Reforming the
system of international investment dispute settlement Gus Van Harten; 5.
The paranoid style of investment lawyers and arbitrators: investment law
norm entrepreneurs and their critics David Schneiderman; 6. The COMESA
Common Investment Area: substantive standards and procedural problems in
dispute settlement Peter Muchlinski; 7. Lessons from the negotiations of
the United Nations Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations and
related instruments Karl P. Sauvant; Part III: 8. India and investment
protection Aniruddha Rajput; 9. China-US BIT negotiation and the emerging
Chinese BIT 4.0 Wenhua Shan and Hongrui Chen; Part IV: 10. Regulating
foreign investment: Methanex revisited Kyla Tienhaara and Todd Tucker; 11.
The new frontier: economic rights of foreign investors versus government
policy space for economic development Howard Mann; 12. Giving arbitrators
carte blanche - fair and equitable treatment in investment treaties
Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder; Part V: 13. Is the umbrella clause not
just another treaty clause? Chin Leng Lim; 14. Internationalisation and
state contracts: are state contracts the future or the past? Jean Ho; Part
VI: 15. State capitalism and sovereign wealth funds: finding a 'soft'
location in international economic law Jiangyu Wang; Part VII: 16. The
many-headed hydra and laws which rage of gain, a chapter in conclusion C.
L. Lim; Index.