Making the World Safe for Investment: The Protection of Foreign Property 1922–1959

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Andrea Leiter (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Making the World Safe for Investment

The Protection of Foreign Property 1922–1959

Andrea Leiter (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

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Cambridge University Press
02 March 2023

Economic theory & philosophy; Economic systems & structures; Investment & securities; International law; Public international law; International arbitration; Constitutional & administrative law

Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law

Western governments, companies, economists and lawyers established the international legal order now known as international investment law to protect foreign property from a redistribution of wealth through domestic law making. This book offers a pre-history of these legal arrangements, focusing on the time before 1959 and the ratification of the first bilateral investment treaty and the ICSID Convention. It introduces new archival material, such as arbitral awards, diplomatic notes and concession agreements, as well as scholarly writings pertaining to developments in these proceedings. These materials are systematised into a coherent argument on the protection of foreign property. The book develops the important role of concession agreements and their internationalisation for the making of international investment law, thereby insisting on the private law character of the foundations of the field. In doing so it displays the analytic force of viewing law as jurisdictional practice, rather than as a system of norms.

By: Andrea Leiter (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781009330459
ISBN 10: 1009330454
Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 02 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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.