Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform: New Treaties, Old Outcomes

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Wolfgang Alschner (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa)

Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform

New Treaties, Old Outcomes

Wolfgang Alschner (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa)

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Oxford University Press Inc
17 November 2022

Capital markets & securities law & regulation

States' efforts to reform the international investment regime have triggered an arbitral backlash. In response to shortcomings of earlier investment agreements, states concluded a new generation of investment treaties that actively balances investment protection obligations with host country policy space. These new-generation agreements are more comprehensive, more precise, and include novel features such as general public policy exceptions. This book reviews the first set of awards rendered under those agreements and finds that new treaties have produced old interpretive outcomes in investment arbitration, and undermine state-driven investment reforms. Adopting a systemic, evidence-based, and interdisciplinary perspective, the book leverages new data that comprehensively reflects regime dynamics, employs state-of-the-art technology including legal data science to treat the text of more than 3000 investment agreements as data, and draws from a range of theoretical frameworks spanning from law and economics to complexity science. The result is a new and authoritative empirical account of the evolution and current state of the international investment regime.

By: Wolfgang Alschner (Associate Professor Faculty of Law Associate Professor Faculty of Law University of Ottawa)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 163mm, Width: 238mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 621g
ISBN: 9780197644386
ISBN 10: 0197644384
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 17 November 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Table of Cases Introduction Part I: State-Driven Reform Chapter 1. Treaties as Data Chapter 2. Change as Gap-filling Chapter 3. Evolution as Americanization Part II: New Treaties, Old Outcomes Chapter 4. Reversing Innovation through MFN Chapter 5. Overriding Differences through Custom Chapter 6. Perpetuating Mistakes through Precedent Part III: New Treaties as Anchor Points Chapter 7. Forward-Looking Interpretation Chapter 8. Data-Driven Renegotiation Chapter 9. Tax-Style Multilateralization

Wolfgang Alschner is an empirical legal scholar specialized in International Economic Law and Legal Data Science. He holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, and a Master of Laws from Stanford Law School. Since 2017 he has been a Faculty Member of the Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa, Canada, with cross-appointment to the Faculty of Computer Science. He teaches International Economic Law, Legal Research Methodology and Data Science for Lawyers in French and English and runs the uOttawa LegalTech Lab.

Reviews for Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform: New Treaties, Old Outcomes

Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform...under review provide fruitful, and complementary, insights as we collectively consider the path ahead. * Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, The American Journal of International Law *