2010 International Economic Law, Regulation of Foreign Direct Investments

 

Treatment of Foreign Direct Investments

 

Law Texts

 

Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources, GA Res 1803 (XVII)

 

UN Charter of Economic Rights and Duties

 

US Model BIT, 2004

 

Philippine-Australia BIT, 1995

 

Readings

 

Andreas Lowenfeld, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW, Chapters 13 and 15

 

Kenneth J. Vandevelde, “Investment Liberalization and Economic Development: The Role of Bilateral Investment Treaties,” 36 colum. J. Trans. L. 501 (1998)

 

Patrick M. Norton, “A Law of the Future or a Law of the Past?  Modern Tribunals and the International Law of Expropriation,” 85 Am. J. Int. L. 474 (1991)

 

“The Treatment of Economic Injury to Aliens in the Revised Restatement of Foreign Relations Law,” International Lawyer (Spring, 1988)

 

Andrew T. Guzman, “Why LDCs Sign Treaties That Hurt Them: Explaining the Popularity of Bilateral Investment Treaties,” 38 Va. J. Int’l Law 639 (1998)