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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Main Author: Jackson Shaw Kern
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2019-01-01
Series:AJIL Unbound
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2398772318000946/type/journal_article
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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.
ISSN:2398-7723