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The Trouble with Foreign Investor Protection. By Gus Van Harten. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 224 + xx pages.

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The Trouble with Foreign Investor Protection. By Gus Van Harten. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 224 + xx pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

MARCIN J. MENKES*
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Professor, Warsaw School of Economics
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© The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 2022

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References

1 Van Harten, Gus, The Trouble with Foreign Investor Protection (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) at 1CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Ibid at 2.

3 Ibid at 56.

4 Ibid.

5 Ibid at 4.

6 Ibid at 10.

7 Ibid at 8.

8 See further Vonyó, Tamás, The Economic Consequences of the War: West Germany’s Growth Miracle after 1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) at 129–72CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Rainer Vollmer, Wolfgang F Stolper & Michael Hudson, “The Structure of West German Foreign Trade” (1981) 137:3 Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft 575.

10 Hannah Buxbaum, “German Legal Culture and the Globalization of Competition Law: A Historical Perspective on the Expansion of Private Antitrust Enforcement” (2005) 23:2 Berkeley J Intl L 474.

11 See generally Djelic, Marie-Laure, Exporting the American Model: The Post-War Transformation of European Business (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

12 Van Harten, supra note 1 at 13–14.

13 Ibid at 10.

14 Ibid.

15 Ibid at 11–13.

16 Ibid at 25.

17 ICSID Case No ARB/87/3, Final Award (27 June 1990), reprinted in (1991) 30:3 ILM 580.

18 ICSID Case No ARB/84/3, Award (30 May 1992), reprinted in (1993) 32:4 ILM 937.

19 Final Award (16 October 1995), online: <www.italaw.com/sites/default/files/case-documents/italaw3049_0.pdf>.

20 Van Harten, supra note 1 at 40–42.

21 See Jarrod Hepburn, “Comparative Public Law at the Dawn of Investment Treaty Arbitration: Saar Papier Vertriebs GmbH v. Republic of Poland” (2014) 15:3 J World Investment & Trade 705.

22 Waste Management Inc v United Mexican States (Metalclad), NAFTA/ICSID Case No ARB(AF)/98/2, Arbitral Award (2 June 2000), reprinted in (2001) 40:1 ILM 56.

23 Van Harten, supra note 1 at 65.

24 Ibid.

25 Ibid at 80.

26 Ibid.

27 Ibid at 82.

28 See further Dezalay, Yves & Garth, Bryant G, Dealing in Virtue: International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of a Transnational Legal Order (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)Google Scholar.

29 Van Harten, supra note 1 at 132.

30 Ibid at 133.

31 Ibid at 140.

32 Ibid.

33 The Academic Forum on ISDS is hosted by the Pluricourts Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, online: <www.jus.uio.no/pluricourts/english/projects/leginvest/academic-forum/>.