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020			_a9781316488317 (ebook) :
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041			_aENG
082			_a346.092
245			_aAlternative Visions of the International Law on Foreign Investment : _bEssays in Honour of Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah _c[electronic resource] / _hby Cambridge University Press.
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2016.
300			_a1 online resource (494 p.)
500			_aTable of contents: Chapter 1. The worm's view of history and the twailing machine Chapter 2. The liberal vision of the international law on foreign investment by Chapter 3. Caveat investors : where do things stand now? Chapter 4. Reforming the system of international investment dispute settlement Chapter 5. The paranoid style of investment lawyers and arbitrators : investment law norm entrepreneurs and their critics Chapter 6. The COMESA common investment area : substantive standards and procedural problems in dispute settlement Chapter 7. Lessons from the negotiations of the United Nations Code of Conduct on transnational corporations and related instruments Chapter 8. India and investment protection Chapter 9. China : US BIT megotiation and the emerging Chinese BIT 4.0 Chapter 10. Regulating foreign investment : Methanex revisited Chapter 11. The new frontier : economic rights of foreign investors versus government policy space for economic development Chapter 12. Giving arbitrators carte blanche : fair and equitable treatment in inveswtment treaties Chapter 13. Is the umbrella clause not just another treaty clause? Chapter 14. Internationalisation and state contracts : are state contracts the future or the past? Chapter 15. State capitalism and sovereign wealth funds : finding a "soft" location in international economic law Chapter 16. The many-headed hydra and laws that rage of gain, a chapter in conclusion
504			_aIncludes index.
520			_a"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."
650			_aLaw.
650			_aInvestment law.
856			_3Cambridge core online _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316488317
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