The International Law on Foreign Investment - Softcover

Sornarajah, M.

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9780521747653: The International Law on Foreign Investment

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521747651 ISBN 13: 9780521747653

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Given recent seismic upheavals in the world's money markets, an updated edition of an authoritative, reliable textbook on the international law of foreign investment has rarely been so timely. Sornarajah's classic text surveys how international law has developed to protect foreign investments by multinational actors and to control any misconduct on their part. It analyses treaty-based methods, examining the effectiveness of bilateral and regional investment treaties. It also considers the reverse flow of investments from emerging industrialising powers such as China and Brazil and explores the retreat from market oriented economics to regulatory controls. By offering thought-provoking analysis of not only the law, but related developments in economics and political sciences, Sornarajah gives immediacy and relevance to the discipline. This book is required reading for all postgraduate and undergraduate international law students specialising in the law of foreign investments.

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Book Description:

This classic text surveys how international law has developed to protect and control foreign investments by international actors. Looking at the legal, economic and political dimensions to the subject, it questions the effectiveness of the law as it currently stands. It is required reading for all students of foreign investment law.

About the Author:

M. Sornarajah is C. J. Koh Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of International Law at the University of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur.

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