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1 online resource (500 pages) |
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Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law |
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Cambridge studies in international and comparative law.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Table of internationaland domestic cases; Table of treaties and otherinternational instruments; Introduction; I. Patterns, challenge, and reconceptualisation; A. Structure; 1. Origins of international investment law; 2. Foreign investment protection in a changing political environment; 3. Contemporary interaction; 4. Foreign investment law, practices, and policy: future trends; Part I Historical evolution of foreigninvestment protection law; 1 Origins of international investment law |
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I. Commerce, politics, and imperialism: the framework for the emergence of international investment lawA. Commercial expansion, colonialism, and the law: origins in imposition; 1. Friendship, commerce, and navigation treaties; 2. Unequal treaties; 3. Concessions; 4. International law, foreign investment, and the 'other'; B. Alignment of state interests with investor interests; 1. Trading companies and the development of international law; (a) Verenigde Oostindishe Compagnie; 2. Implications for International Investment Law; C. Imperialism, investment, and the environment |
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II. The law of diplomatic protection of alien property in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesA. State responsibility for the treatment of aliens: expropriation; 1. National treatment vs international minimum standard; (a) Latin American dissent: the Calvo Doctrine; 2. Expropriation in the nineteenth century; B. Pre-World War I disputes; 1. The United States and Paraguay Navigation Company Claim241; 2. Britain (Finlay) v. Greece263; 3. The Delagoa Bay Railroad Arbitration267; 4. Britain v. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Sicilian Sulphur Monopoly Case)285 |
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5. Portuguese Religious Properties Case2966. Venezuelan Arbitrations302; III. Conclusion; 2 'The dynamic of a politically oriented law': foreign investment protection in a changing political environment; I. Agrarian reform: a challenge to investor protection; II. Shifting political threats: postcolonial states and the New International Economic Order; A. Postcolonial states and nationalisation; 1. Responding through legal doctrine; (a) Acquired rights, state succession, and the international law of contracts; (b) Doctrinal patterns: past and present; 2. Responding through regime creation |
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(A) Investment treaty regimesa. Developing states' accession to bilateral investment treaties; b. 'South-South' bilateral investment treaties; B. The New International Economic Order; 1. Key NIEO proposals and initiatives; (a) Permanent sovereignty over natural resources; (b) Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States; 2. Shaping international investment law: familiar patterns; III. Social movements, the environment, and foreign investment protection; A. Host state grassroots activism; 1. Constituting a social movement; 2. International economic law and resistance |
| Summary |
Examination of the origins of international investment law and their continued resonance in the twenty-first century |
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B. Environmentalism as a global political force |
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Print version record |
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Investments, Foreign (International law) -- History
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Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation.
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Investments, Foreign (International law)
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Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781107419773 |
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1107419778 |
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