Making the World Safe for Investment
The Protection of Foreign Property 1922–1959
Part of Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
- Author: Andrea Leiter, Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Date Published: February 2023
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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.
Read more- Reveals the building blocks that went into making the regime of international investment law
- Explores law as a jurisdictional practice in a light and approachable manner
- Analyses the connections between international legal and international economic thought and practice
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- Date Published: February 2023
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781009330442
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Making the world safe for investment
2. The Palestine railway arbitration 1922
3. The Lena Goldfields arbitration 1930
4. The Sheikh of Abu Dhabi arbitration 1951
5. The Abs-Shawcross draft convention 1959
6. Conclusions: the world is safe for investment.
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