Sovereign Choices and Sovereign Constraints

by Gus Van Harten

Book Overview

Investment arbitrators rely on sovereignty for their legal status just as investor-state disputes usually stem from disagreements about the role of the state in society. As a result, investment arbitration is a vehicle for the exercise of sovereign authority and a site for contesting sovereign choices. This book investigates and evaluates the decision-making record and policy trajectory of international investment arbitration, from theoretical, doctrinal,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199678642
• ISBN13: 9780199678648
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"