Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties

Comprehensively investigate key characteristics, evolutionary path, driving forces, interpreting methodologies, and some missing puzzles of Chinese BITs.

List of contents

1. Current landscape and puzzling issues; 2. China's foreign investment law in the past four decades; 3. Substantive protection provisions in Chinese BITs; 4. Non-discriminatory standards in China's BITs; 5. Expropriation in local and global contexts; 6. How are Chinese bits interpreted? Jurisprudential review of treaty interpretative tools in Chinese BIT-based arbitration cases; 7. Parallel proceedings under Chinese BITs; 8. Transitional clauses in transition and the black hole in Chinese BIT law; 9. Evolutionary path of China's BIT law in the return of the state paradigm - a statistical and textual approach; 10. Who makes Chinese BITs? - an empirical investigation; 11. By way of conclusion: Chinese BIT law and practice in the jungle.

About the author

Shen Wei is KoGuan Distinguished Professor of Law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law School, Global Professor of Law at NYU Law School and L. Bates Lea Professor of Law at Michigan Law School. Professor Shen is an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and sits on various international panels as an advisor. He is an arbitrator for major arbitration centers such as the London Court of International Arbitration, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and Singapore International Arbitration Centre. He has been a visiting professor at more than ten law schools in Europe, the US and Asia. Besides editorial duties for various international journals, he has written and edited over 10 books and published more than 200 articles in both English and Chinese journals.

Summary

China is one of the major investment destinations and is a major country signing a large number of BITs and FTAs. China has been applying a liberalization approach to transform its BIT regime. This book investigates these widely accepted theories and norms in the context of investment liberalization.

Product details

• Authors: Shen Wei, Wei Shen
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2024
• EAN: 9781108792059
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79205-9
• Weight: 694 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, International Law, Politics & government, Public International Law, Educational strategies & policy, Politics and government, Investment Treaties & Disputes, International economic & trade law, Educational strategies and policy, Treaties & Other Sources Of International Law, Public international law: treaties and other sources, Public international law: economic and trade