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An Overview of the International Legal Framework Governing Investment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Alejandro Escobar*
Affiliation:
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Washington, D.C

Abstract

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Type
Toward an Effective International Investment Regime
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1997

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References

1 A forthcoming (May 1997) ICSID publication will contain chronological and country data on bilateral investment treaties concluded between 1959 and 1996.

2 This estimate was made on the basis of a survey carried out by ICSID of its collection of bilateral investment treaties. See generally the multivolume loose-leaf collection ICSID, Investment Treaties.

3 See 14 News From ICSID, No. 1, at 1 (1997).

4 Energy Charter Treaty, reprinted in 10 ICSID Rev./Foreign Investment L.J. 258, 285 art. 26 (1995).

5 Paulsson, Jan, Arbitration without Privity, 10 ICSID Rev./Foreign Investment L.J. 232 (1995)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Escobar, Alejandro, Introductory Note on Bilateral Investment Treaties Recently Concluded by Latin American States, 11 ICSID Rev./Foreign Investment L. J. 85 (1996)Google Scholar.