Impact of Investment Treaty Law on Host States

Enabling Good Governance?

AvMavluda Sattorova

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Traditionally, international investment law was conceptualised as a set of norms aiming to ensure good governance for foreign investors, in exchange for their capital and know-how. However, the more recent narratives postulate that investment treaties and investor–state arbitration can lead to better governance not just for foreign investors but also for host state communities. Investment treaty law can arguably foster good governance by holding host governments liable for a failure to ensure transparency, stability, predictability and consistency in their dealings with foreign investors.The recent proliferation of such narratives in investment treaty practice, arbitral awards and academic literature raises questions as to their juridical, conceptual and empirical underpinnings. What has propelled good governance from a set of normative ideals to enforceable treaty standards? Does international investment law possess the necessary characteristics to inspire changes at the national level? How do host states respond to investment treaty law? The overarching objective of this monograph is to unpack existing assumptions concerning the effects of international investment law on host states. By combining doctrinal, empirical, comparative analysis and unveiling the emerging ‘nationally felt’ responses to international investment norms, the book aims to facilitate a more informed understanding of the present contours and the nature of the interplay between international investment norms and national realities.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-25
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:331 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in International Law
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781509939565

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Dr Mavluda Sattorova is Senior Lecturer at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool.

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Sattorova’s book is a comprehensive contribution that can serve those approaching the topic from radically different angles.... likely to find its place on many bookshelves – and rightfully so.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction I. International Investment Law: From Good Governance for Foreign Investors to Good Governance for AllII. Conceptual Framework III. Outline of Chapters2. Genesis of ‘Good Governance’ Narratives in International Investment Law and Scholarship: An Historical and Doctrinal Analysis I. Conceptual Inspirations behind the Good Governance Narratives of Investment Treaty Law II. Embodiments of Good Governance Precepts in Investment Treaty Law III. Competing Visions of Investment Treaty Law and its Good Governance Promise IV. Conclusion 3. How Do Host States Respond to Investment Treaty Law? I. The Impact of Investment Treaty Law on Governance in Host States: Key Empirical Questions II. Methodology III. Are Government Officials Aware of International Investment Law and its Good Governance Prescriptions? IV. How Host States ‘Learn’ from Investment Arbitration V. Negative Internalisation: Over-protection and Withdrawal VI. Internalising Investment Treaty Prescriptions: Why, at Whose Behest and What Cost?VII. Conclusion 4. The Role of Remedy Design in Inducing Host States to Comply with Investment Treaty Standards of Good Governance I. Damages as a Principal Form of Relief for an Investment Treaty Breach II. Can State Compliance with Good Governance Standards be Fostered through Monetary Sanctions? III. The Design of Investment Treaty Remedies and State Compliance with Good Governance Standards:A Functional Analysis IV. Compliance and Optimal Remedy Design: Punitive, Non-pecuniary, Multi-tiered? V. Conclusion 5. Investment Treaty Law and its Internal Capacity to Foster Good Governance in Host States I. Is the Investment Treaty Regime Compliant with Good Governance Standards? II. Legitimacy and ‘Compliance Pull’: (Insufficient) Transparency and Coherence of Investment Treaty Rulesand Arbitral Jurisprudence III. Internationalisation of Investment Law and its (Disempowering) Effects on Governance in Host States IV. Good Governance as a Two-way Street: Dealing with Investor Misconduct in Treaty Practice and Arbitration V. Conclusion 6. International Investment Law and its Anti-participatory Animus I. The Investment Treaty Regime and Its Disregard for the Political and Social Interfaces of Development II. Foreign Investors and the Domestic Political Process III. Developing Countries and the Making of International Investment Law: Lack of Participation and Inclusivity IV. Lack of Stakeholder Input in the Making of Investment Treaties in Developed Countries V. Conclusion 7. Conclusion