Alternative visions of the international law on foreign investment : essays in honour of Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah / edited by Chin Leng Lim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lim, C. L. (Chin L.), editor.

Sornarajah, M., honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, Foreign (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 494 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2016).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781316488317

Access Restriction:

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