International investment law and soft law
By: edited by Andrea K. Bjorklund, August Reinisch
Contributors: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Edward
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cheltenham, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781781003220; 9781781003213
Subjects: Soft law; Law and legislation; Foreign Investments; Investments, Foreign (International law)
Description: This important book examines the development of soft law instruments in international investment law and the feasibility of a 'codification' of the present state of this field of international economic law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction : the ILA Study Group on the role of soft law instruments in international investment law / Andrea K. Bjorklund and August Reinisch; title: 2. Sources of international investment law / Moshe Hirsch; title: 3. Soft law in international law : an overview / Melaku Geboye Desta; title: 4. Assessing the effectiveness of soft law instruments in international investment law / Andrea K. Bjorklund; title: 5. Soft law instruments in environmental law : models for international investment law? / Kate Miles; title: 6. Soft law codifications in the area of commercial law / Giuditta Cordero-Moss; title: 7. GATT/WTO law and international standards : an example of soft law instruments hardening up? / Melaku Geboye Desta; title: 8. The evolution of investment protection based on public international law treaties : lessons to be learned / Christian Tietje and Emily Sipiorski; title: 9. Is the MFN Principle in international investment law ripe for multilateralization or codification? / Andreas R. Ziegler; title: 10. Is expropriation ripe for codification? : the example of the non-discrimination requirement for lawful expropriations / August Reinisch; title: 11. Soft codification of international investment law / August Reinisch and Andrea K. Bjorklund.