Given recent seismic upheavals in the world's money markets, an updated edition of an authoritative, reliable textbook on the international law of foreign investment has rarely been so timely. Sornarajah's classic text surveys how international law has developed to protect foreign investments by multinational actors and to control any misconduct on their part. It analyses treaty-based methods, examining the effectiveness of bilateral and regional investment treaties. It also considers the reverse flow of investments from emerging industrialising powers such as China and Brazil and explores the retreat from market oriented economics to regulatory controls. By offering thought-provoking analysis of not only the law, but related developments in economics and political sciences, Sornarajah gives immediacy and relevance to the discipline. This book is required reading for all postgraduate and undergraduate international law students specialising in the law of foreign investments.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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978-0-511-84143-9 (9780511841439)
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National University of Singapore
M. Sornarajah is C. J. Koh Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of International Law at the University of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur.
1. Introduction; 2. The shaping factors; 3. Controls by the host state; 4. The liability of multinational corporations and home state measures; 5. Bilateral investment treaties; 6. Multilateral instruments on foreign investment; 7. Settlement of investment disputes: contract-based arbitration; 8. Treaty-based investment arbitration: jurisdictional issues; 9. Causes of action: breaches of treatment standards; 10. The taking of foreign property; 11. Compensation for nationalisation of foreign investments; 12. Defences to responsibility.
