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Investor-State Arbitration 2nd ed isbn 9780198755760

Investor-State Arbitration


ISBN13: 9780199795727
New Edition ISBN: 9780198755760
Published: March 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Country of Publication: United States
Format: Paperback (Hardback 2008)
Price: Out of print
Hardback edition out of print, ISBN13 9780379215441



The increasing importance of international investment has been accompanied by the rapid development of a new field of international law that defines the obligations of host states towards foreign investors and creates procedures for resolving disputes in connection with those obligations. Investor-State Arbitration examines the international treaties that give investors a right to arbitration of claims, the most-commonly employed arbitration rules, and the most important elements of investor-state arbitration procedure - including tribunal composition, jurisdiction, evidence, award, and challenge of annulment. Expert coverage includes procedural barriers to recovery, analysis of the substantive law of investment protection, and analysis of recent investor-state arbitral jurisprudence.

Investor-State Arbitration traces the evolution and rapid development of this important field of international arbitration, resulting from the formation of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the more than 2,000 bilateral investment treaties, most of which have originated in the last twenty years. This development has led to far greater certainty for foreign investors in dealing with their host countries and has incentivized growth in international trade and commerce. Through arbitration, investors who have been negatively affected by the acts of a host country, such as, for example, the expropriation of property, now have a fair means of redress. Investor-State Arbitration analyzes the rights of private parties under these treaties to arbitrate disputes with countries, the arbitration rules most commonly employed in investor-state disputes, the important elements of substantive law and procedure, the enforcement of awards (including annulment proceedings under ICSID), current developments, including conflict and convergence of interests in capital-importing and capital-exporting countries, restrictions on state sovereignty, analysis of recent investor-state arbitral jurisprudence, and, finally, the emergence of an international investment jurisprudence.

Includes a full discussion of the future development of investor-state arbitration:

  • The challenges of globalization
  • The clash of capital-importing and capital-exporting countries
  • Environmental protection and free trade
  • Restrictions on state sovereignty
  • The construction of an international investment
  • The limits of arbitrability
  • The expansion of multilateral investment protections worldwide

Subjects:
International Investment Law, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Contents:
I. INTRODUCTION
A. The Importance of FDI For Capital Importers and Exporters
B. The Purpose of Investment Protection
C. Arbitration as a Catalyst for FDI
II. HISTORY OF INVESTMENT-RELATED DISPUTE RESOLUTION
A. Early Investment Protection Treaties
B. Procedural Limitations of Early Treaties and Customary International Law
C. Substantive Limitations Under Early Treaties and Customary International Law
III. THE MODERN SYSTEM OF INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION
A. The Origin and Development of Modern Investment Arbitration
B. Investment Arbitration with Privity: Investment Contracts and Compromis
C. Investment Arbitration without Privity: Treaties and Investment Laws
D. Procedural Rules
IV. PROCEDURAL ISSUES IN INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION
A. The Course of an Investment Arbitration
B. Arbitrator-Ordered Interim Relief
C. Jurisdictional Issues
D. Multi-Party Investment Arbitration -- Consolidation
E. The Role of National Courts
V. SUBSTANTIVE LAW OF INVESTMENT ARBITRATION
A. Sources of Substantive Law
B. The Most Common Investor Protections
C. Damages Under International Investment Law
D. Elements of a Successful Substantive Claim
VI. CHALLENGE AND ENFORCEMENT OF AWARDS
A. Challenge and Vacatur
B. Enforcement of Awards
VII. THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT ARBITRATION
A. The Challenges of Globalization and International Development
B. Environmental Protection and Freedom of Investment
C. State Sovereignty and the Limits of Arbitrability
D. Local Politics, Local Law, and Global Investment
E. The Development of a Jurisprudence of International Investment
F. The Expansion of Multilateral Investment Protection (MAI, FTAA);