Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law - A Return to the Gay Nineties?
Article from: TDM 5 (2007), in Empirical and Statistical Analysis of Investment Disputes
Introduction
This is a chapter of the author's book, Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law , recently published by Oxford University Press. It offers a historical overview of the recent explosion of investment treaty claims, and an explanation why capital-importing states have agreed in bilateral and regional treaties to accept an intensity of adjudicative supervision and investor protection that they long opposed at the multilateral level. In doing so, it introduces the underlying question of the book: whether the adjudicative model that was chosen by states, involving the ...