Hasil Pencarian  ::  Simpan CSV :: Kembali

"Summary: "International economic law is a branch of public international law. Its sub-fields, however, have taken on the appearance of disconnected specialist subjects over the years ; not least in the world of international legal practice with its Gattologists, Bitologists and sovereign debt workout specialists. In recent decades, the international law on foreign investment especially risked becoming unmoored from sovereign legal relations. Sornarajah, however, always took the classic view of a subject rooted deeply in the sources and systems of public international law"

"Sornarajah (law, National University of Singapore) surveys the international law developed to protect foreign investment by multinational corporations, and considers the ways in which misconduct on the part of such corporations in host states can be controlled. Focus is on the protection of foreign investment and the problems associated with such protection, with discussion of treaty-based methods, analysis of several bilateral and regional investment treaties, and consideration of the WTO's failure to agree on a multilateral treaty system."

"Addressing the pressing need to examine foreign investment law in the context of public international law, the role of the multinational corporation in foreign investment and issues of liability for environmental and other damage, this book analyses contractual and treaty-based methods of investment protection and examines the effectiveness of bilateral and regional investment treaties. By offering analysis of the law in historical, political and economic contexts, the book captures leading trends and charts the possible course of future developments."

"Sornarajah (law, National University of Singapore) surveys the international law developed to protect foreign investment by multinational corporations, and considers the ways in which misconduct on the part of such corporations in host states can be controlled. Focus is on the protection of foreign investment and the problems associated with such protection, with discussion of treaty-based methods, analysis of several bilateral and regional investment treaties, and consideration of the WTO's failure to agree on a multilateral treaty system."

"Legalist Empire explores the intimate connections between international law and empire in the United States from 1898 to 1919. Though many histories treat Woodrow Wilsons plans for the League of Nations as the beginning of Americas substantive engagement with international law, this book demonstrates the broad influence of legal concepts and expertise in the years before World War I. It follows such lawyers as Elihu Root, John Bassett Moore, James Brown Scott, and Robert Lansing as they created an American profession of international law, promoted the creation of international courts, represented corporations with business overseas, and served as high-ranking policymakers in Washington. A widespread belief in the inevitable progress of civilization simultaneously justified American empire and underwrote the claim that international adjudication could bring world peace. Legalist Empire shows how international lawyers justified the conquest of the Philippines, the taking of Panama, and interventions throughout the Caribbean, and also explains why the law of neutrality helped lead the United States into World War I. The book also offers a new history of the origins of the American international law profession. Research in the papers and publications of lawyers and their organizations shows how political, ideological, and cultural assumptions shaped the emerging profession. A conclusion tracing developments to the present further emphasizes that rather than being antagonists, empire and the international rule of law have frequently reinforced each other in American history."