The legitimacy of investment arbitration : empirical perspectives / edited by Daniel Behn, Ole Kristian Fauchald, Malcolm Langford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Behn, Daniel, 1974- editor.

Fauchald, Ole Kristian, editor.

Langford, Malcolm, editor.

Series:

Studies on international courts and tribunals.

Studies on international courts and tribunals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, Foreign (International law).

International commercial arbitration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 560 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

International investment arbitration remains one of the most controversial areas of globalisation and international law. This book provides a fresh contribution to the debate by adopting a thoroughly empirical approach. Based on new datasets and a range of quantitative, qualitative and computational methods, the contributors interrogate claims and counter-claims about the regime's legitimacy. The result is a nuanced picture about many of the critiques lodged against the regime, whether they be bias in arbitral decision-making, close relationships between law firms and arbitrators, absence of arbitral diversity, and excessive compensation. The book comes at a time when several national and international initiatives are under way to reform international investment arbitration. The authors discuss and analyse how the regime can be reformed and ow a process of legitimation might occur.

Contents:

Introduction : the legitimacy crisis and the empirical turn / Daniel Behn, Ole Kristian Fauchald, Malcolm Langford

The international investment regime and its discontents / Daniel Behn, Ole Kristian Fauchald, Malcolm Langford

Testing cognitive bias : experimental approaches and investment arbitration / Sergio Puig, Anton Strezhnev

The influence of law firms in investment arbitration / Runar Hilleren Lie

Arbitrator challenges in international investment tribunals / Chiara Giorgetti

Dissents in investement arbitration : on collegiality and individualism / Daphna Kapeliuk

Foreign investors, domestic courts and investment treaty arbitration / Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi

Ensuring correctness or promoting consistency : tracking policy priorities in investment arbitration through large-scale citation analysis / Wolfgang Alschner

Fair and equitible treatment : ordering chaos through precedent / Florian Grisel, Meng Jia Yang

The West and the rest : geographic diversity and the role of arbitrator nationality in investment arbitration / Malcolm Langford, Daniel Behn, Maxim Usynin

Mixing methodologies in empirically investigating investment arbitration and inbound foreign investment / Shiro Armstrong, Luke Nottage

Double jeopardy? The use of investment arbitration in times of crisis / Cedric Dupont, Thomas Schultz, Merih Angin

Who has benefited financially from investment treaty arbitration? An evaluation of the size and wealth of claimants / Gus Van Harten, Pavel Malysheuski

Explaining China's relative absence from investment treaty arbitration / Fredrik Lindmark, Daniel Behn, Ole Kristian Fauchald

Does international arbitration enfeeble or enhance local legal institutions? / Catherine Rogers, Christopher Drahozal

Learning from investment treaty law and arbitration : developing states and power inequalities / Mavluda Sattorova, Oleksandra Vytiaganets

Legitimation through modification : do states seek more regulatory space in their investments agreements? / Tomer Broude, Yoram Haftel, Alex Thompson.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-94375-6

1-108-94998-3

1-108-94663-1