Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform

New Treaties, Old Outcomes

Wolfgang Alschner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-764438-6 (ISBN)

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States' efforts to reform the international investment regime have triggered an arbitral backlash. In response to shortcomings of earlier investment agreements, states concluded a new generation of investment treaties that actively balances investment protection obligations with host country policy space. These new-generation agreements are more comprehensive, more precise, and include novel features such as general public policy exceptions. This book reviews the first set of awards rendered under those agreements and finds that new treaties have produced old interpretive outcomes in investment arbitration, and undermine state-driven investment reforms.

Adopting a systemic, evidence-based, and interdisciplinary perspective, the book leverages new data that comprehensively reflects regime dynamics, employs state-of-the-art technology including legal data science to treat the text of more than 3000 investment agreements as data, and draws from a range of theoretical frameworks spanning from law and economics to complexity science. The result is a new and authoritative empirical account of the evolution and current state of the international investment regime.

Wolfgang Alschner is an empirical legal scholar specialized in International Economic Law and Legal Data Science. He holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, and a Master of Laws from Stanford Law School. Since 2017 he has been a Faculty Member of the Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa, Canada, with cross-appointment to the Faculty of Computer Science. He teaches International Economic Law, Legal Research Methodology and Data Science for Lawyers in French and English and runs the uOttawa LegalTech Lab.

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Table of Cases
Introduction

Part I: State-Driven Reform

Chapter 1. Treaties as Data
Chapter 2. Change as Gap-filling
Chapter 3. Evolution as Americanization

Part II: New Treaties, Old Outcomes

Chapter 4. Reversing Innovation through MFN
Chapter 5. Overriding Differences through Custom
Chapter 6. Perpetuating Mistakes through Precedent

Part III: New Treaties as Anchor Points

Chapter 7. Forward-Looking Interpretation
Chapter 8. Data-Driven Renegotiation
Chapter 9. Tax-Style Multilateralization

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2022
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	238 x 163 mm
Gewicht	621 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht
ISBN-10	0-19-764438-4 / 0197644384
ISBN-13	978-0-19-764438-6 / 9780197644386
Zustand	Neuware