The origin and evolution of investment treaty standards : stability, value, and reasonableness / Federico Ortino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ortino, Federico, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, Foreign (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

This title provides a conceptual and legal analysis of the core of investment protection guarantees that emerge from international treaties signed since 1959 for the promotion and protection of foreign investment. It focuses on both the origin and evolution of investment treaty standards. Beginning with origins, the work considers the broader context at the time when the first modern investment treaty was concluded. It goes on to examine the many decisions of ad hoc arbitral tribunals that have since been called upon to apply these treaties in order to resolve the several hundred investor-State disputes. It also looks at some of the recent investment treaties that have attempted to clarify and/or reform the content and scope of investment protection guarantees.

Contents:

Introduction

Guarantees of legal stability in the strict sense

Protecting the value of investments : the expropriation provision

Ensuring reasonableness in the conduct of host states

Conclusion.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-258022-1

0-19-187854-5

0-19-258021-3