Alternative Visions of the International Law on Foreign Investment: Essays in Honour of Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
Chin Lim
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hardcover. Editor(s): Lim, Chin Leng. BIC Classification: LBBM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
529
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107139060
SKU
V9781107139060
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99-10
About Chin Lim
C. L. Lim is Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor at King's College London and, in 2015, Lionel A. Sheridan Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. He practices as a barrister from Keating Chambers, London and has advised sovereign nations and private clients in public and private international law matters and disputes. His ... Read more
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