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- Title: Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law (Book Review)
- Author : Stanford Journal of International Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 239 KB
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Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law. By Gus Van Hagen, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxxii, 214. $110 (hardcover). For most of the twentieth century, international courts and tribunals rarely enjoyed blanket jurisdiction over foreign nationals. This has changed with the advent of "investment treaty arbitrations." Investment treaty arbitration is a treaty-based regime that uses rules and structures of international law and private arbitration to make governmental choices regarding the regulatory relationship between investors and the state (p. 8). Although tribunals exist around the world, the primary and most public arena for investment-treaty arbitration is the World Bank's Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The body has experienced a fourteen-fold spike in arbitrations since the mid-1990s, with cases centering on the former communist block and Latin America.