Friday, October 19, 2007

Ortino et al.: Investment Treaty Law: Current Issues II

Federico Ortino (British Institute of International and Comparative Law), Lahra Liberti (British Institute of International and Comparative Law), Audley Sheppard (Clifford Chance LLP), & Hugo Warner (British Institute of International and Comparative Law) have published Investment Treaty Law: Current Issues II (British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2007). Contents include:
  • I. NATIONALITY AND INVESTMENT TREATY CLAIMS
    • Matthias Pannier, Nationality of Corporations under Domestic Law: A Comparative Perspective
    • Piero Bernardini, Nationality Requirements under BITs and Related Case Law
    • Norah Gallagher, The Requirement for Substantive Nationality
    • Maurice Mendelson, The Requirement for Continuous Nationality
    • Devashish Krishan, Nationality of Physical Persons
    • Sir Frank Berman, The Relevance of the Law on Diplomatic Protection in Investment Arbitration
    • Robert Wisner, Derivative Actions and Indirect Claims
  • II. FAIR AND EQUITABLE TREATMENT IN INVESTMENT TREATY LAW
    • Rudolf Dolzer & André von Walter, Fair and Equitable Treatment - Lines of Jurisprudence on Customary Law
    • Lluís Paradell, The BIT Experience of the Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard
    • Giacinto Della Cananea, Equivalent Standards under Domestic Administrative Law: A Comparative Perspective
    • M. Sornarajah, The Fair and Equitable Standard of Treatment: Whose Fairness? Whose Equity?
    • Stephen Fietta, Expropriation and the 'Fair and Equitable Treatment' Standard
    • Matthew Weiniger, The Standard of Compensation for Violation of the Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard
    • Peter Muchlinski, 'Caveat Investor'?: The Relevance of the Conduct of the Investor Under the Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard
    • Ian Laird, The Emergency Exception and the State of Necessity