Book Review

摘要

The book, entitled Regionalism in International investment Law, was edited by Leon E. Trakman, who is a Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University in South Wales, author and editor of a lot of articles and several books, arbitrator, mediator, adjudicator, barrister, solicitor and advocate in one person, and Nicola W. Ranieri, former Director of the Centra Juridico Para el Comercio Inter-Americana in Mexico, a Panelist under the Nafta Chapter 19, a founding member of the NAFTA Consortium on Legal Education and a lot more. This book consists of 16 chapters also including preface, introduction and appendix. It describes the historical background and development of the foreign direct investments, the protection of the foreign investors in particular regions, which are getting more and more important. It deals also with shaping of this field of law because of regional and bilateral influence.