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Author: Nicolás M. Perrone (Research Associate Professor, Research Associate Professor, Universidad Andres Bello, Viña del Mar, Chile)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.554kg
ISBN: 9780198862147
ISBN 10: 0198862148
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 11 February 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Nicolas Perrone's fascinating book explores the blueprint that had been made in the 1950s and 1960s for the setting up of a system of international investment protection. At a time when the reform of this system is being contemplated, this timely book calls our attention to the early thinking of a coalition of diverse leaders from business, law and finance, and to how arbitrators willingly carried out the ideas in the blueprint by building a legal superstructure through the interpretation of the investment treaties. * Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore * This timely book subverts the tradition by offering its own, meticulously researched and boldly argued, story of international investment law. Perrone unmasks the hidden figures whose legal and political imagination spawned the global regime of investment protection, unveiling the key drivers behind its creation and rapid expansion in the recent decades. * Mavluda Sattorova, Reader, Liverpool Law School * Perrone's book is an elegantly written account of both investment law's origin story and its contemporary practice. Taking a deep dive into the archives and the jurisprudence, readers learn that arbitral output today is fully faithful to the legal imagination of the regime's founding fathers. Like their predecessors, contemporary norm entrepreneurs elide engagement with local communities even as the regime moves to adopt a proceduralist, good governance, rationale. Inviting readers to rethink the investment law regime, Perrone offers a critical and timely intervention, conjoining the present with the past, with a view to imagining a different future for international law. * David Schneiderman, Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Toronto *
Author Information
Nicolás M Perrone is a Research Associate Professor at Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile. He has previously taught at Durham University and Universidad Externado de Colombia. Nicolás has been Visiting Professor at Universidad Nacional de San Martín, the International University College of Turin, and Università del Piemonte Orientale, a faculty member of the Institute for Global Law and Policy (Harvard Law School) and a Visiting Lecturer at Xi'an Jiaotong School of Law. Nicolás has also consulted for the OECD, and worked as a legal fellow for UNCTAD.
