Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PART I International Court of Justice
- PART II International arbitration
- 12 A BIT about ICSID
- 13 The influence of bilateral investment treaties on customary international law
- 14 The United States 2004 Model Bilateral Investment Treaty: an exercise in the regressive development of international law
- 15 The United States 2004 Model Bilateral Investment Treaty and denial of justice in international law
- 16 Anti-suit injunctions in international arbitration: an overview
- 17 The law applicable in international arbitration: application of public international law
- 18 The validity of an arbitral award rendered by a truncated tribunal
- 19 The authority of a truncated tribunal
- 20 Injunction of arbitral proceedings and truncation of the tribunal
- 21 Public policy and arbitral procedure
- 22 The creation and operation of an International Court of Arbitral Awards
- 23 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Aramco arbitrate the Onassis Agreement
- 24 The Southern Bluefin Tuna case
- 25 A celebration of the United Nations New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
- 26 Does the consent of the Contracting Parties govern the requirement of an “investment” as specified in Article 25 of the ICSID Convention?
- PART III Miscellaneous
- Collected publications, judicial opinions and book reviews
- Index
13 - The influence of bilateral investment treaties on customary international law
from PART II - International arbitration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PART I International Court of Justice
- PART II International arbitration
- 12 A BIT about ICSID
- 13 The influence of bilateral investment treaties on customary international law
- 14 The United States 2004 Model Bilateral Investment Treaty: an exercise in the regressive development of international law
- 15 The United States 2004 Model Bilateral Investment Treaty and denial of justice in international law
- 16 Anti-suit injunctions in international arbitration: an overview
- 17 The law applicable in international arbitration: application of public international law
- 18 The validity of an arbitral award rendered by a truncated tribunal
- 19 The authority of a truncated tribunal
- 20 Injunction of arbitral proceedings and truncation of the tribunal
- 21 Public policy and arbitral procedure
- 22 The creation and operation of an International Court of Arbitral Awards
- 23 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Aramco arbitrate the Onassis Agreement
- 24 The Southern Bluefin Tuna case
- 25 A celebration of the United Nations New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
- 26 Does the consent of the Contracting Parties govern the requirement of an “investment” as specified in Article 25 of the ICSID Convention?
- PART III Miscellaneous
- Collected publications, judicial opinions and book reviews
- Index
Summary
My simple thesis, which I hope that this sophisticated audience will not find simplistic, is this: Customary international law governing the treatment of foreign investment has been reshaped to embody the principles of law found in more than two thousand concordant bilateral investment treaties. With the conclusion of such a cascade of parallel treaties, the international community has vaulted over the traditional divide between capital-exporting and capital-importing states and fashioned an essentially unified law of foreign investment.
For some two hundred years, the international community was divided over what law governed the treatment of foreign investment and over the content of that law. In large and loose terms, capital-exporting countries maintained that international law, which indisputably related to the treatment of aliens, related to the treatment and taking of their property as well. The standard of that treatment could not lawfully fall below the minimum standard of international law. If the property of a foreigner was expropriated by a State, the expropriation was lawful only if it was for a public purpose, not discriminatory, and accompanied by the payment of prompt, adequate and effective compensation.
Capital-importing countries tended to have another perspective. The foreign investor was governed by the law of the host State and the remedies afforded by that law alone; he was entitled to no more than national treatment, the treatment accorded by the host State to the investments of its own nationals.
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- Justice in International LawFurther Selected Writings, pp. 146 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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