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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.
List of contents
- 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 in Action
- 6: Givings and ISDS
- 7: Local Communities and ISDS
- Conclusion: Towards a New Legal Imagination
About the author
Nicolás M Perrone is a Research Associate Professor at Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile. He has previously taught at Durham University and Universidad Externado de Colombia. Nicolás has been Visiting Professor at Universidad Nacional de San Martín, the International University College of Turin, and Università del Piemonte Orientale, a faculty member of the Institute for Global Law and Policy (Harvard Law School) and a Visiting Lecturer at Xi'an Jiaotong School of Law. Nicolás has also consulted for the OECD, and worked as a legal fellow for UNCTAD.
Summary
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.
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Nicolás Perrone's fascinating book explores the blueprint that had been made in the 1950s and 1960s for the setting up of a system of international investment protection. At a time when the reform of this system is being contemplated, this timely book calls our attention to the early thinking of a coalition of diverse leaders from business, law and finance, and to how arbitrators willingly carried out the ideas in the blueprint by building a legal superstructure through the interpretation of the investment treaties.
