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The First Bilateral Investment Treaties: U.S. Postwar Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaties
Kenneth J. Vandevelde
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Hardback. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: KCLF; LBB; LBBC; LBBM3; LBHT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
The First Bilateral Investment Treaties is the first and only history of the U.S. postwar Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation (FCN) treaty program, and focuses on the investment-related provisions of those treaties. The 22 U.S. postwar FCN treaties were the first bilateral investment treaties ever concluded, and nearly all of the core provisions in the modern network of more than 3000 international investment agreements worldwide trace their origin to these FCN treaties. This book explains the original understanding of the language of this vast network of agreements which have been and continue to be the subject of hundreds of international ... Read more
The First Bilateral Investment Treaties is the first and only history of the U.S. postwar Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation (FCN) treaty program, and focuses on the investment-related provisions of those treaties. The 22 U.S. postwar FCN treaties were the first bilateral investment treaties ever concluded, and nearly all of the core provisions in the modern network of more than 3000 international investment agreements worldwide trace their origin to these FCN treaties. This book explains the original understanding of the language of this vast network of agreements which have been and continue to be the subject of hundreds of international ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190679576
SKU
V9780190679576
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99-24
About Kenneth J. Vandevelde
Kenneth J. Vandevelde is Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law where he teaches international investment law and arbitration as well as public international law. He served as President and Dean of the law school from 1994 to 2005. Professor Vandevelde published extensively on international investment law, arbitration, and bilateral investment treaties authoring: United States Investment Treaties: Policy ... Read more
Reviews for The First Bilateral Investment Treaties: U.S. Postwar Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaties
Professor Vandevelde provides a very much needed prequel to studies of the modern investment treaty regime. He traces key treaty provisions back to the late 1940s when efforts to launch an International Trade Organization failed, and investment principles then migrated into U.S. Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation (FCN) treaties. Most valuable is the chapter collecting the U.S. State Department's interpretation of ... Read more