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The international law on foreign investment / M. Sornarajah.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sornarajah, M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Investments, Foreign (International law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxx, 524 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Given recent seismic upheavals in the world's money markets, an updated edition of an authoritative, reliable textbook on the international law of foreign investment has rarely been so timely. Sornarajah's classic text surveys how international law has developed to protect foreign investments by multinational actors and to control any misconduct on their part. It analyses treaty-based methods, examining the effectiveness of bilateral and regional investment treaties. It also considers the reverse flow of investments from emerging industrialising powers such as China and Brazil and explores the retreat from market oriented economics to regulatory controls. By offering thought-provoking analysis of not only the law, but related developments in economics and political sciences, Sornarajah gives immediacy and relevance to the discipline. This book is required reading for all postgraduate and undergraduate international law students specialising in the law of foreign investments.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The shaping factors
- Actors in the field of foreign investment
- Risks in foreign investment
- Sources of the international law on foreign investment
- Multilateral instruments on foeign 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 national isation of foreign investments
- Defences to responsibility.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511841439
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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