Custom and its Interpretation in International Investment Law: Volume 2

Custom and its Interpretation in International Investment Law: Volume 2
Author: Panos Merkouris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1009255452

At first glance, one may think of international investment law as a response to custom (or lack thereof), instead of a field of its application. However, in fact, the opposite is the case. The interpretation and application of customary rules and principles are the bread and butter of international investment law and arbitration. With a diverse range of expert contributors, this collection traces how customary international law is practised in international investment law. It considers how custom should be interpreted and how its rules and principles should be understood and applied by investor-state arbitral tribunals. Raising and addressing vital questions surrounding custom and international law, this collection is a necessary contribution to the scholarship of the theory and history of customary international law and international investment law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

International Investment Law

International Investment Law
Author: Tarcisio Gazzini
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2012-08-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004214534

Transnational investment involves a variety of actors (States, public and private legal entities, and natural persons) whose relationships are governed by rules and legal instruments belonging to different legal systems. This book provides a systematic study of the sources of rights and obligations in the field of transnational investment, and their coordination and interaction. It focuses primarily on the network of over 3,000 Bilateral Investment Treaties, international investment contracts, customary international law, the main multilateral treaties, national legislation, international case law and general principles of law. The book, firmly based on State practice, arbitral awards and national decisions, is indispensable to fully appraise the nature and content of the claims of private investors as well as to identify the law applicable in investment arbitration.

Customary International Humanitarian Law

Customary International Humanitarian Law
Author: Jean-Marie Henckaerts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2005-03-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521808995

Customary International Humanitarian Law, Volume I: Rules is a comprehensive analysis of the customary rules of international humanitarian law applicable in international and non-international armed conflicts. In the absence of ratifications of important treaties in this area, this is clearly a publication of major importance, carried out at the express request of the international community. In so doing, this study identifies the common core of international humanitarian law binding on all parties to all armed conflicts. Comment Don:RWI.

Customary International Law

Customary International Law
Author: Brian D. Lepard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2010-01-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 052119136X

This book sets out to articulate a comprehensive theory of customary international law that can effectively resolve the conceptual and practical enigmas surrounding it. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and draws insights from international law, legal theory, political science, and game theory. It is anchored in a sophisticated ethical framework and explores the interrelationships between customary international law and ethics.

Custom's Future

Custom's Future
Author: Curtis A. Bradley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 703
Release: 2016-02-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316654125

Although customary international law has long been an important source of rights and obligations in international relations, there has been extensive debate in recent years about whether this body of law is equipped to address complex modern problems such as climate change, international terrorism, and global financial instability. In addition, there is growing uncertainty about how, precisely, international and domestic courts should identify rules of customary international law. Custom's Future seeks to address this uncertainty by providing a better understanding of how customary international law has developed over time, the way in which it is applied in practice, and the challenges that it faces going forward. Reflecting an interdisciplinary mix of historical, empirical, economic, philosophical, and doctrinal analysis, and containing chapters by leading international law experts, it will be of use to lawyers, judges, and researchers alike.

International Investment Treaties and the Formation, Application and Transformation of Customary International Law Rules

International Investment Treaties and the Formation, Application and Transformation of Customary International Law Rules
Author: Cai Congyan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN:

International custom is one of the main sources of international law. As a relatively new branch of international law, international investment treaties, emerging in the late 1950s and having been very energetic since the mid-1990s, have become a driving force and an important forum for the formation, application and transformation of the customary international law rules.

Fair and Equitable Treatment

Fair and Equitable Treatment
Author: Patrick Dumberry
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004366121

This book examines the interaction between the concept of the ‘minimum standard of treatment’ under custom and the fair and equitable treatment (FET) standard found in the vast majority of BITs. It also analyses whether the FET standard should be considered as a rule of customary international law.

Public Purpose in International Law

Public Purpose in International Law
Author: Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2015-02-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316272699

This text explores how the public purpose doctrine reconciles the often conflicting, but equally binding, obligations that states have to engage in regulatory sovereignty while honoring host-state obligations to protect foreign investment. The work examines the multiple permutations and iterations of the public purpose doctrine and concludes that this principle needs to be reconceptualized to meet the imperatives of economic globalization and of a new paradigm of sovereignty that is based on the interdependence, and not independence, of states. It contends that the historical expression of the public purpose doctrine in customary and conventional international law is fraught with fundamental flaws that, if not corrected, will give rise to disparities in the relationship between investors and states, asymmetries with respect to industrialized nations and developing states, and, ultimately, process legitimacy concerns.