Trouble With Foreign Investor Protection

At their core, ISDS treaties are flawed because they very firmly institute wealth-based inequality under international law. In this book, Van Harten explores these claims in the light of the history of early ISDS treaties.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Preface


• 1: Fortifying Inequality


• 2: Origins of ISDS Treaties


• 3: Activation of the Treaties


• 4: The Most Powerful Protections


• 5: Special Access to Public Funds


• 6: Intimidating Sovereigns


• 7: Fault Lines and the Future of ISDS


• Bibliography


• Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Gus Van Harten is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, where he has taught for 12 years since completing his PhD and teaching at the London School of Economics. He specializes in international investment law and administrative law and is a leading academic critic of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), having written several books and dozens of academic articles on the subject.

Zusammenfassung

At their core, ISDS treaties are flawed because they very firmly institute wealth-based inequality under international law. In this book, Van Harten explores these claims in the light of the history of early ISDS treaties.

Zusatztext

The Trouble with Foreign Investor Protection does not only look at the treaties, individual cases and now all too commonly known accusations such as the 'chilling effect', secrecy or the lack of judicial oversight over ICSID cases but also at the greater picture - the 'leading hawks of ISDS' - and the sociological involvement and influence of individual arbitrators themselves.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gus Van Harten, Gus (Professor and Associate Dean Van Harten
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.10.2020
• EAN: 9780198866213
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886621-3
• Seiten: 224
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Internationales Recht, Ausländisches Recht; LAW / International, LAW / Arbitration, Negotiation, Mediation, Politics & government, International Arbitration, Politics and government, Investment & securities, Investment and securities, Investment Treaties & Disputes, International economic & trade law, Treaties & Other Sources Of International Law, Public international law: treaties and other sources, Public international law: economic and trade, International law: arbitration