Alternative Visions of the International Law on Foreign Investment
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9781107139060
Subjects: Investments, foreign (international law)
Description: "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"--