Investor Responsibility as Familiar Frontier
This essay suggests that amidst the various criticisms of investor-state arbitration, the most potent is the present inadequacy of this mechanism to establish a reciprocal responsibility of foreign investors. The founders of the modern era of international investment arbitration never intended to bu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2019-01-01
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Series: | AJIL Unbound |
Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2398772318000946/type/journal_article |
Summary: | This essay suggests that amidst the various criticisms of investor-state arbitration, the most potent is the present inadequacy of this mechanism to establish a reciprocal responsibility of foreign investors. The founders of the modern era of international investment arbitration never intended to build a one-way street. In this sense, to seek a regime of investor responsibility may not be to reach toward a new frontier so much as to return to one that is familiar, though underexplored. |
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ISSN: | 2398-7723 |