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Title
The international law on foreign investment
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Sornarajah, M. (Author)
Subject
Investments, Foreign (International law) (LCSH)
Investments, Foreign--Law and legislation (LCSH)
Language
English
Classification
LCC: K3830 .S647 2020 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 346/.092 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23)
Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
"1 Introduction Few areas of international law excite as much controversy as the law relating to foreign investment. A spate of arbitration awards resulting from investment treaties has added much to the debates in recent times. These have been followed by massive literature analysing the law resulting from the treaties and the arbitration awards. Since the awards often conflict, the confusion has been exacerbated. Though the conflict in the awards is often attributed to the inconsistencies in the language in the treaties each tribunal had to interpret, the more probable explanation is that there are philosophical, economic and political attitudes that underlie the conflict which in turn reflect the underlying causes for the controversies that have existed in the area for a long time. The legitimacy of the system has been contested. The result of this lack of legitimacy has been for some states to withdraw altogether from the system and for other states to bring about newer types of treaties that provide a balance between investment protection and the state's right to regulate in the public interest. Public protests against the system appeared when decisions of states involving public interests came to be decided by investment arbitration tribunals sitting far away from the states and in a manner that was seen as biased towards foreign investment"-- Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
The shaping factors
Controls by the host state
The liability of multinational corporations and home state measures
Bilateral investment treaties
Multilateral and regional instruments on foreign investment
Settlement of investment disputes : contract-based arbitration
Treaty-based investment arbitration: jurisdictional issues
Causes of action: breaches of treatment standards
The taking of foreign property
Compensation for nationalisation of foreign investments
Defences to responsibility.
Authorized Access Point
Sornarajah, M. The international law on foreign investment
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: prepublication
Identified By: bf:Local, 21766399
Change Date: 2020-10-26T09:56:19
Creation Date: 2020-10-22
Description Language: English
Description Authentication: Program for Cooperative Cataloging
Assigner: United States, Library of Congress