The WTO and International Investment Law: Converging Systems
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| Anteprima |
International
law has historically regulated foreign trade and foreign investment
differently. Distinct evolutionary pathways have led to variances in
treaty form, institutional culture, and dispute settlement. With their
inevitable erosion through the late twentieth to early twenty-first
centuries, those weak boundaries have become porous and indefensible.
Powerful economic, legal and sociological factors are now pushing the
two systems together. In this book, Jürgen Kurtz systematically explores
the often complex and little-understood dynamics of this convergence
phenomenon. Kurtz addresses the growing connections between
international trade and investment law, proposing a theoretically
grounded and doctrinally tractable framework to understand the deepening
relationship between them. The book also offers reform ideas and
possibilities, providing treaty negotiators and other government
officials with a set of theoretical insights and doctrinal models that
can guide actors in building a justifiable and sustainable level of
commonality between the two legal systems.
