Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law - Volume 5

Praise for the Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law - Series:

"This volume is not for the beginner, nor was it meant to be. It does not provide answers to the many open and difficult questions in the area of investment treaty arbitration, for the simple reason that there are none. The publication is invaluable, however, for anyone who wishes to follow and understand the developments and the debates in this field. We look forward to the Third Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference and the book that will come in its wake."
- Kaj Hóber, Partner, Mannheimer Swartling, Stockholm; Professor of International Law, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee.

"Todd Grierson Weiler, the guiding hand and organizer of the conference in Washington DC in 2007 which led to this book, has taken the traditional conference materials book and adopted the formula most brilliantly for the distinctive discipline that is investment treaty arbitration and international law. ...The papers are reproduced in full in the book and are products of much scholarship and hard work. These are not conference papers which one occasionally sees -- namely shorter presentation pieces designed for ready consumption by an audience -- rather they are highly thoughtful and challenging works which command careful reading. ...While the papers throughout do not always reflect the personal views of the authors -- they were assigned a thesis to advance/defend, much in the same way that one argues for a client's case regardless of personally-held views -- the approach is a particularly important one and marks out the book's contribution to international law. ...This book represents and contains an important and contemporary contest of ideas and thoughts given by those who are in practice in this field.

This is not a book for the novitiate, nor is it a ready guide-book to investment treaty arbitration; this is a thought-provoking and substantial presentation of ideas in five particular topics and rightly deserves its place in the library of all who practice in this area. It is not a book for one to settle down and digest in one easy bite -- this book requires and commands time to properly consider. It is all the better for that attribute. Further volumes are awaited with much anticipation."
- Klaus Reichert, Brick Court Chambers is a Barrister and Chartered Arbitrator. He is Co-Chair of the IBA Litigation Committee, is a member of the LCIA European Users' Council, the ICC Commission on Arbitration, IBA delegate to the Hague Conference on Private International Law

"This is a very wide-ranging work that brings together several generations of legal specialists from very different cultures of law; it includes highly original, even brilliant contributions."
- Droit Et Pratique Des Investissements Internationaux - (International Investments Law And Practice)