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Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law
Gus Van Harten
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Description for Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law
Hardback. Outlines investment treaty arbitration as a public law system, by demonstrating the significance of giving arbitrators comprehensive jurisdiction to decide regulatory disputes between business and state. This book exposes some consequences of transplanting rules of commercial arbitration into the regulatory sphere. Series: Oxford Monographs in International Law. Num Pages: 224 pages, b+w illustrations. BIC Classification: KCL; LBBM; LBHT; LNAC5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 522.
The recent explosion of investment treaty arbitration marks a major transformation of both international and public law, above all because of the manner in which states have delegated core powers of the courts to private arbitrators. This book outlines investment treaty arbitration as a public law system and demonstrates how the system goes beyond all other forms of international adjudication in giving arbitrators a comprehensive jurisdiction to determine the legality of sovereign acts and to award public funds to businesses that sustain loss as a result of government regulation. The analysis also reveals some startling consequences of ... Read more
The recent explosion of investment treaty arbitration marks a major transformation of both international and public law, above all because of the manner in which states have delegated core powers of the courts to private arbitrators. This book outlines investment treaty arbitration as a public law system and demonstrates how the system goes beyond all other forms of international adjudication in giving arbitrators a comprehensive jurisdiction to determine the legality of sovereign acts and to award public funds to businesses that sustain loss as a result of government regulation. The analysis also reveals some startling consequences of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
Oxford Monographs in International Law
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199217892
SKU
V9780199217892
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99-1
About Gus Van Harten
Gus Van Harten is Assistant Professor at the Osgoode Hall School of Law, York University, Canada. He previously taught International Law at the London School of Economics, where he obtained his PhD. He was educated in Canada at the University of Guelph, York University, and Osgoode Hall Law School. His work on investment treaties has appeared in the European ... Read more
Reviews for Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law
The author's intellectual forebears
would be pleased by how this young author has avoided rehashing familiar charges of 'neoimperialism' or assertions of rampant greed by 'unaccountable' multinational enterprises in favor of a relatively succinct, refreshingly jargon-free, and scholarly censure of foreign investment arbitral regime. -Jose E. Alvarez, Columbia Law School
would be pleased by how this young author has avoided rehashing familiar charges of 'neoimperialism' or assertions of rampant greed by 'unaccountable' multinational enterprises in favor of a relatively succinct, refreshingly jargon-free, and scholarly censure of foreign investment arbitral regime. -Jose E. Alvarez, Columbia Law School