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Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play By Their Own Rules
This book brings a new perspective to the subject of international investment law, by tracing the origins of foreign investor rights. It shows how a group of business leaders, bankers, and lawyers in the mid-twentieth century paved the way for our current system of foreign investment relations, and the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism.
| Author(s) | By Nicolas M. Perrone (Research Associate Professor, Research Associate Professor, Universidad Andres Bello, Vina del Mar, Chile). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 272 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 11 Feb 2021 |
| Availability | Available |
This book brings a new perspective to the subject of international investment law, by tracing the origins of foreign investor rights. It shows how a group of business leaders, bankers, and lawyers in the mid-twentieth century paved the way for our current system of foreign investment relations, and the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism.
Introduction: A Legal Imagination 1: Foreign Investor Rights and Investment Relations 2: The Norm Entrepreneurs of the 1950s and 1960s 3: Competing Imaginaries and the 1970s 4: The Rise of Investment Treaties and ISDS in the 1990s and Since 5: ISDS i
Nicolas M Perrone is a Research Associate Professor at Universidad Andres Bello, Chile. He has previously taught at Durham University and Universidad Externado de Colombia. Nicolas has been Visiting Professor at Universidad Nacional de San Martin, the Int
