Andrea Leiter (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Making the World Safe for Investment

The Protection of Foreign Property 1922-1959

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fresh account of how the international legal regime for protecting foreign investment came into being, based on primary archival material. Andrea Leiter then draws on this history to explain why this regime works the way in currently does, which advantages some and makes others invisible.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781009330459
• ISBN-10: 1009330454
• Artikelnr.: 65689369

Autorenporträt

Andrea Leiter is an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Center for International Law at the University of Amsterdam, whose research for this book has been funded by a competitive Fellowship awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is a former visiting researcher at the Institute of Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Making the world safe for investment
2. The Palestine railway arbitration 1922
3. The Lena Goldfields arbitration 1930
4. The Sheikh of Abu Dhabi arbitration 1951
5. The Abs-Shawcross draft convention 1959
6. Conclusions: the world is safe for investment.