Investment treaties and the legal imagination : how foreign investors play by their own rules / Nicolás M. Perrone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perrone, Nicolás M., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, Foreign (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Foreign investors have a privileged position under investment treaties. They enjoy strong rights, have no obligations, and can rely on a highly efficient enforcement mechanism: investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Unsurprisingly, this extraordinary status has made international investment law one of the most controversial areas of the global economic order. This book sheds new light on the topic, by showing that foreign investor rights are not the result of unpredicted arbitral interpretations, but rather the outcome of a world-making project realised by a coalition of business leaders, bankers, and their lawyers in the 1950s and 1960s. Some initiatives that these figures planned for did not emerge, such as a multilateral investment convention, but they were successful in developing a legal imagination that gradually occupied the space of international investment law.

Contents:

Introduction: A legal imagination

Foreign investor rights and investment relations

The norm entrepreneurs of the 1950s and 1960s

Competing imaginaries and the 1970s

The rise of investment treaties and ISDS in the 1990s and since

ISDS in action

Givings and ISDS

Local communities and ISDS

Conclusion: Towards a new legal imagination.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-260675-1

0-19-189483-4

0-19-260674-3

OCLC:

1241445899