Kate Miles

The Origins of International Investment Law

Empire, Environment and the Safeguarding of Capital

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the origins of international investment law and their continued resonance in the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 868g
• ISBN-13: 9781107039391
• ISBN-10: 1107039398
• Artikelnr.: 37800976

Autorenporträt

Kate Miles is a Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge. She currently serves on the International Law Association's New Study Group on the Role of Soft Law Instruments in International Investment Law. She is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, Montreal, and co-ordinates the International Investment Law Network for the Society of International Economic Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Historical Evolution of Foreign Investment Protection
Law: 1. Origins of international investment law; 2. 'The dynamic of a
politically oriented law': foreign investment protection in a changing
political environment; Part II. Contemporary Interaction: Foreign
Investment, Imperialism and Environmental Protection: 3. Polarisation of
positions; 4. Hints at synergy; Part III. Foreign Investment Law, Practices
and Policy: Future Trends: 5. Transformation in international law: applying
developments to foreign investment; 6. Paths towards a reconceptualised
international law on foreign investment; 7. Conclusion: patterns of power
in international investment law.