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The origin and evolution of investment treaty standards : stability, value, and reasonableness / Federico Ortino.

By: Ortino, Federico [author.]Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191878541Subject(s): Investments, Foreign (International law) | Law | Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of lawAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198842637DDC classification: 346.092 LOC classification: K3830Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This title provides a conceptual and legal analysis of the core of investment protection guarantees that emerge from international treaties signed since 1959 for the promotion and protection of foreign investment. It focuses on both the origin and evolution of investment treaty standards. Beginning with origins, the work considers the broader context at the time when the first modern investment treaty was concluded. It goes on to examine the many decisions of ad hoc arbitral tribunals that have since been called upon to apply these treaties in order to resolve the several hundred investor-State disputes. It also looks at some of the recent investment treaties that have attempted to clarify and/or reform the content and scope of investment protection guarantees.
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This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This title provides a conceptual and legal analysis of the core of investment protection guarantees that emerge from international treaties signed since 1959 for the promotion and protection of foreign investment. It focuses on both the origin and evolution of investment treaty standards. Beginning with origins, the work considers the broader context at the time when the first modern investment treaty was concluded. It goes on to examine the many decisions of ad hoc arbitral tribunals that have since been called upon to apply these treaties in order to resolve the several hundred investor-State disputes. It also looks at some of the recent investment treaties that have attempted to clarify and/or reform the content and scope of investment protection guarantees.

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