Making the world safe for investment : the protection of foreign property 1922-1959 / Andrea Leiter, University of Amsterdam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leiter, Andrea, 1985- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 178.

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 178

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, Foreign (International law)--History.

Investments, Foreign (International law).

Investments, Foreign--Law and legislation--History.

Investments, Foreign.

Arbitration (International law)--History.

Arbitration (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 161 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Western governments, companies, economists and lawyers established the international legal order now known as international investment law to protect foreign property from a redistribution of wealth through domestic law making. This book offers a pre-history of these legal arrangements, focusing on the time before 1959 and the ratification of the first bilateral investment treaty and the ICSID Convention. It introduces new archival material, such as arbitral awards, diplomatic notes and concession agreements, as well as scholarly writings pertaining to developments in these proceedings. These materials are systematised into a coherent argument on the protection of foreign property. The book develops the important role of concession agreements and their internationalisation for the making of international investment law, thereby insisting on the private law character of the foundations of the field. In doing so it displays the analytic force of viewing law as jurisdictional practice, rather than as a system of norms.

Contents:

Making the world safe for investment

The Palestine Railway Arbitration 1922

The Lena Goldfields Arbitration 1930

The Sheikh of Abu Dhabi arbitration 1951

The Abs-Shawcross Draft Convention 1959

Conclusions : the world is safe for investment.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2023).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009330428 (ebook)

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