Making the World Safe for Investment
Making the World Safe for Investment
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Summary
A fresh account of how the international legal regime for protecting foreign investment came into being, based on primary archival material. Andrea Leiter then draws on this history to explain why this regime works the way in currently does, which advantages some and makes others invisible.
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Making the World Safe for Investment by Andrea Leiter
Western governments, companies, economists and lawyers established the international legal order now known as international investment law to protect foreign property from a redistribution of wealth through domestic law making. This book offers a pre-history of these legal arrangements, focusing on the time before 1959 and the ratification of the first bilateral investment treaty and the ICSID Convention. It introduces new archival material, such as arbitral awards, diplomatic notes and concession agreements, as well as scholarly writings pertaining to developments in these proceedings. These materials are systematised into a coherent argument on the protection of foreign property. The book develops the important role of concession agreements and their internationalisation for the making of international investment law, thereby insisting on the private law character of the foundations of the field. In doing so it displays the analytic force of viewing law as jurisdictional practice, rather than as a system of norms.
Andrea Leiter is an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Center for International Law at the University of Amsterdam, whose research for this book has been funded by a competitive Fellowship awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is a former visiting researcher at the Institute of Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009330459 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009330454 |
| Title | Making the World Safe for Investment |
| Author | Andrea Leiter |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In International And Comparative Law |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-03-02 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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