M. Sornarajah

The International Law on Foreign Investment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting international foreign investment law in historical, political and economic contexts, this book embraces all recent developments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 642
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9781107133624
• ISBN-10: 1107133629
• Artikelnr.: 47778572

Autorenporträt

M. Sornarajah is C. J. Koh Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of International Law at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. The shaping factors; 3. Controls by the host state; 4. The liability of multinational corporations and home state measures; 5. Bilateral investment treaties; 6. Multilateral and regional instruments on foreign investment; 7. Settlement of investment disputes: contract-based arbitration; 8. Treaty-based investment arbitration: jurisdictional issues; 9. Causes of action: breaches of treatment standards; 10. The taking of foreign property; 11. Compensation for nationalisation of foreign investments; 12. Defences to responsibility.