Armand de Mestral & Celine Levesque (eds), Improving International Investment Agreements

摘要

The title of the book mirrors its contents appropriately: a group of mainly legally trained scholars and practitioners, together with colleagues with a background in economics and political economy, analyse the question of whether the law governing the promotion and protection of foreign investment reflects sound public policy with the aim of providing solutions to expressed criticism of the system. Armand de Mestral and Celine Levesque accurately set the stage in the Editor's Preface that the book attempts 'to deal with some of the most controversial issues which currently face the international investment law regime and to assist the reader in making a judgment on the underlying policy issuse.