Alternative Visions of the International Law on Foreign Investment: Essays in Honour of Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah

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Alternative Visions of the International Law on Foreign Investment: Essays in Honour of Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah

By Chin Leng Lim
Cambridge University Press March 2016

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ISBN-13
9781107139060
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
March 2016
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of treaties, national legislation, cases and awards

Part I: 1. The worm's view of history and the twailing machine Chin Leng 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 Chin Leng Lim
Index.
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