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The Emerging Foreign Direct Investment Regim e

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

José E. Alvarez
José E. Alvarez*
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Columbia Law School
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The “New” Regime of Foreign Direct Investment
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 99 , 2005 , pp. 94 - 97
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2005

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1 On the growth of BITs, see, e.g., Andrew Guzman, Why LDCs Sign Treaties That Hurt Them: Explaining the Popularity of Bilateral Investment Treaties, 38 V a . J. Int ’l L. 639 (1998). For an enumeration of some of the other investment treaties mentioned, see United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, International Investment Instruments: A Compendium (UN 1996).

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