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The origins of international investment law : empire, environment and the safeguarding of capital.

Examination of the origins of international investment law and their continued resonance in the twenty-first century.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miles, Kate
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Cambridge studies in international and comparative law.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Table of internationaland domestic cases; Table of treaties and otherinternational instruments; Introduction; I. Patterns, challenge, and reconceptualisation; A. Structure; 1. Origins of international investment law; 2. Foreign investment protection in a changing political environment; 3. Contemporary interaction; 4. Foreign investment law, practices, and policy: future trends; Part I Historical evolution of foreigninvestment protection law; 1 Origins of international investment law. 
505 8 |a I. Commerce, politics, and imperialism: the framework for the emergence of international investment lawA. Commercial expansion, colonialism, and the law: origins in imposition; 1. Friendship, commerce, and navigation treaties; 2. Unequal treaties; 3. Concessions; 4. International law, foreign investment, and the 'other'; B. Alignment of state interests with investor interests; 1. Trading companies and the development of international law; (a) Verenigde Oostindishe Compagnie; 2. Implications for International Investment Law; C. Imperialism, investment, and the environment. 
505 8 |a II. The law of diplomatic protection of alien property in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesA. State responsibility for the treatment of aliens: expropriation; 1. National treatment vs international minimum standard; (a) Latin American dissent: the Calvo Doctrine; 2. Expropriation in the nineteenth century; B. Pre-World War I disputes; 1. The United States and Paraguay Navigation Company Claim241; 2. Britain (Finlay) v. Greece263; 3. The Delagoa Bay Railroad Arbitration267; 4. Britain v. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Sicilian Sulphur Monopoly Case)285. 
505 8 |a 5. Portuguese Religious Properties Case2966. Venezuelan Arbitrations302; III. Conclusion; 2 'The dynamic of a politically oriented law': foreign investment protection in a changing political environment; I. Agrarian reform: a challenge to investor protection; II. Shifting political threats: postcolonial states and the New International Economic Order; A. Postcolonial states and nationalisation; 1. Responding through legal doctrine; (a) Acquired rights, state succession, and the international law of contracts; (b) Doctrinal patterns: past and present; 2. Responding through regime creation. 
505 8 |a (A) Investment treaty regimesa. Developing states' accession to bilateral investment treaties; b. 'South-South' bilateral investment treaties; B. The New International Economic Order; 1. Key NIEO proposals and initiatives; (a) Permanent sovereignty over natural resources; (b) Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States; 2. Shaping international investment law: familiar patterns; III. Social movements, the environment, and foreign investment protection; A. Host state grassroots activism; 1. Constituting a social movement; 2. International economic law and resistance. 
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