The importance of property in international investment law
Journal: Journal of International Dispute Settlement
Year: 2025

Abstract This article argues, focusing on the protection from expropriation, that international investment law is fundamentally about the protection of foreign investors’ proprietary rights, although this point has often been missed in academic literature and tribunal practice. The paper argues that as property is generally understood to be shaped and created by domestic law, a better understanding and application of domestic law is necessary in order to rebalance international investment law (I