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Book SynopsisThere is no denying that the rules and enforcement mechanisms of investment law and arbitration reach deep into the regulatory and policy space of host states. Investment tribunals have the ability to second-guess all variety of state measures and, in doing so, have displayed a remarkable lack of restraint. Despite investment law''s muscularity, without equal in international law, the prevailing orthodoxy treats investment law as a defensible and just restraint on government and politics. This volume helps to correct the prevailing view. Rethinking Investment Law illustrates how investment law protections for foreign investors constrains states and over-compensates investors. It offers a more balanced vision of how international law can protect all those affected, not just foreign investors. An expert set of contributors explain both the conventional law and its limitations. Their analysis shows that doctrines, now widely entrenched, in orthodox accounts of investment law could have ta
Table of Contents1: David Schneiderman and Gus Van Harten: Introduction 2: David Schneiderman: National Treatment 3: Anil Yilmaz Vastardis: Most Favoured Nation Treatment 4: Nicolás M. Perrone: Expropriation 5: Fola Adeleke and Gus Van Harten: The Minimum Standard of Treatment 6: Mavluda Sattorova: Denial of Justice and Judicial Measures 7: Josef Ost%ranský: Fair and Equitable Treatment 8: Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu: Umbrella Clauses 9: Ximena Sierra-Camargo and Federico Suárez-Ricaurte: The Right to Regulate 10: Juan Carlos Boué: The Determination of Quantum and Claim Inflation 11: M. Sornarajah: Conclusion: Containing the Pernicious Regime of Investment Arbitration
