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The Public International Law Regime Governing International Investment (Volume 344)

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José Enrique Alvarez
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ABSTRACTThis course considers the ramifications of the legal regime that governs transborder capital flows. This regime consists principally of a network of some 3,000 investment treaties, as well as a growing body of arbitral decisions. Professor Alvarez contends that the contemporary international investment regime should no longer be described as a species of territorial “empire” imposed by rich capital exporters on capital importers. He examines the evolution of investment treaties and investor-State jurisprudence constante and identifies the connections between these and general trends within public international law, including the increased resort to treaties (“treatification”), growing risks to the law’s consistency (“fragmentation”), and the proliferation of forms of international adjudication (“judicialization”). Professor Alvarez also considers whether the regime’s efforts to “balance” the needs of non-State investors and sovereigns ought to be characterized as “global administrative law”, as a form of “constitutionalization”, or as an increasingly human-rights-centred enterprise.

Dans son cours consacré au régime de droit international public gouvernant le règlement des différends internationaux en matière d'investissement étranger, José Enrique Alvarez, Professeur de droit à l'Université Colombia de New York, examine les dimensions structurelles de ce régime, et de quelle manière il s'articule aux dispositions du droit international public général. José Enrique Alvarez présente son cours comme une tentative de compréhension de l'évolution idéologique, politique et juridique du régime de l'investissement étranger. Il souhaite également en retenir les leçons pour d'autres régimes fondés sur des traités et pour ceux qui sont appelés à régler les différends intervenant dans ces autres régimes.
Title:
The Public International Law Regime Governing International Investment (Volume 344)
The Hague Academy Collected Courses Online / Recueil des cours de l'Académie de La Haye en ligne
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/1875-8096_pplrdc_A9789004185128_02
Language:
English
First-online:
02 Jan 2011
Online ISSN:
1875-8096
Publisher:
Brill | Nijhoff

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