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International Investment Law and History
Historiographical approaches in international investment law scholarship are becoming ever more important. This insightful book combines perspectives from a range of expert international law scholars who explore ways in which using a broad variety of methods in historical research can lead to a better understanding of international investment law.
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Historiographical approaches in international investment law scholarship are becoming ever more important. This insightful book combines perspectives from a range of expert international law scholars who explore ways in which using a broad variety of methods in historical research can lead to a better understanding of international investment law.
International Investment Law and History critically evaluates the use of historical analysis in international investment law. It examines the various roles that historical arguments play in interpreting investment treaties, resolving investor-state disputes, and justifying or criticizing the current system of investment protection.
This book is the first in-depth study on the methodological challenges and benefits of historical approaches in international investment law. As such, it is a vital tool for scholars and practitioners in the field who wish to understand ways in which to use historical research and analysis to improve and redefine international investment law.
International Investment Law and History critically evaluates the use of historical analysis in international investment law. It examines the various roles that historical arguments play in interpreting investment treaties, resolving investor-state disputes, and justifying or criticizing the current system of investment protection.
This book is the first in-depth study on the methodological challenges and benefits of historical approaches in international investment law. As such, it is a vital tool for scholars and practitioners in the field who wish to understand ways in which to use historical research and analysis to improve and redefine international investment law.
Critical Acclaim
‘The book is a fantastic collection of individual essays which together form a compelling argument that historical research can lead to not only a better understanding of international investment law, but that it can serve as a tool which leads to new discoveries, new methods of argument, and new ways to conceptualize aspects of international investment law we thought we already understood.’
– Journal of International Arbitration
‘There is no shortage of reading materials dealing with the subject of treaty-based investor-state arbitration, but as the editors of this fascinating volume have perceived, the field is dominated by the “here and now”, and thus lacks important insights of historical perspective. The original contributions to be found here compel the reader to reconceptualize issues in light of the recognition that they did not emerge freshly minted from a box just 25 years ago.’
Jan Paulsson, Three Crowns LLP, Washington, DC, US
‘This is an outstanding collection of provocative and informative chapters. The contributors provide short, fascinating histories of several important elements of contemporary international investment law, while exploring the methodological issues that confront historians of the field and surveying the recent historical scholarship. For anyone interested in the history of international investment law, this is the perfect place to start.’
Kenneth Vandevelde, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, US
‘It is a trite point that history plays an important role in international investment law, perhaps more so than in other, less decentralized fields of international law. This very fine volume will provide much of interest to the careful reader, be it their “historical” inquiry directed at the broader normative tapestry of sources, responsibility, and dispute settlement within which investment law operates; interpretation and application of particular primary rules; critical engagement with the systemic teleology; or theoretical and methodological underpinnings.’
Martins Paparinskis, University College London, UK
– Journal of International Arbitration
‘There is no shortage of reading materials dealing with the subject of treaty-based investor-state arbitration, but as the editors of this fascinating volume have perceived, the field is dominated by the “here and now”, and thus lacks important insights of historical perspective. The original contributions to be found here compel the reader to reconceptualize issues in light of the recognition that they did not emerge freshly minted from a box just 25 years ago.’
Jan Paulsson, Three Crowns LLP, Washington, DC, US
‘This is an outstanding collection of provocative and informative chapters. The contributors provide short, fascinating histories of several important elements of contemporary international investment law, while exploring the methodological issues that confront historians of the field and surveying the recent historical scholarship. For anyone interested in the history of international investment law, this is the perfect place to start.’
Kenneth Vandevelde, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, US
‘It is a trite point that history plays an important role in international investment law, perhaps more so than in other, less decentralized fields of international law. This very fine volume will provide much of interest to the careful reader, be it their “historical” inquiry directed at the broader normative tapestry of sources, responsibility, and dispute settlement within which investment law operates; interpretation and application of particular primary rules; critical engagement with the systemic teleology; or theoretical and methodological underpinnings.’
Martins Paparinskis, University College London, UK
Contributors
Contributors: M. Boase, H.L. Bray, Y. Chernykh, J. Ho, R. Hofmann, J. Kammerhofer, A. Kulick, K. Miles, M. Pinchis-Paulsen, S.W. Schill, T. St. John, C.J. Tams, J.W. Yackee
Contents
Contents:
Preface and acknowledgements
Part I INTRODUCTION
1. International investment law and history: An introduction
Stephan W. Schill, Christian J. Tams and Rainer Hofmann
Part II OBJECTS AND OBJECTIVES OF HISTORY
2. Narrating narratives of international investment law: History and epistemic forces
Andreas Kulick
3. The first investor-state arbitration? The Suez Canal dispute of 1864 and some reflections on the historiography of international investment law
Jason Webb Yackee
4. Understanding change: Evolution from international claims commissions to investment treaty arbitration
Heather L. Bray
5. History and international law: Method and mechanism ‑ empire and ‘usual’ rupture
Kate Miles
6. The challenges of history in international investment law: A view from legal theory
Jörg Kammerhofer
Part III METHODOLOGY AND ITS CHALLENGES
7. Resolving challenges to historical research: Developing a project to define fair and equitable treatment
Mona Pinchis-Paulsen
8. The evolution of contractual protection in international law: Accessing diplomatic archives, discovering diplomatic practice, and constructing diplomatic history
Jean Ho
9. The gust of wind: The unknown role of Sir Elihu Lauterpacht in the drafting of the Abs-Shawcross Draft Convention
Yuliya Chernykh
10. Enriching law with political history: A case study on the creation of the ICSID Convention
Taylor St. John
11. A genealogy of censurable conduct: Antecedents for an international minimum standard of investor conduct
Muin Boase
Index
Preface and acknowledgements
Part I INTRODUCTION
1. International investment law and history: An introduction
Stephan W. Schill, Christian J. Tams and Rainer Hofmann
Part II OBJECTS AND OBJECTIVES OF HISTORY
2. Narrating narratives of international investment law: History and epistemic forces
Andreas Kulick
3. The first investor-state arbitration? The Suez Canal dispute of 1864 and some reflections on the historiography of international investment law
Jason Webb Yackee
4. Understanding change: Evolution from international claims commissions to investment treaty arbitration
Heather L. Bray
5. History and international law: Method and mechanism ‑ empire and ‘usual’ rupture
Kate Miles
6. The challenges of history in international investment law: A view from legal theory
Jörg Kammerhofer
Part III METHODOLOGY AND ITS CHALLENGES
7. Resolving challenges to historical research: Developing a project to define fair and equitable treatment
Mona Pinchis-Paulsen
8. The evolution of contractual protection in international law: Accessing diplomatic archives, discovering diplomatic practice, and constructing diplomatic history
Jean Ho
9. The gust of wind: The unknown role of Sir Elihu Lauterpacht in the drafting of the Abs-Shawcross Draft Convention
Yuliya Chernykh
10. Enriching law with political history: A case study on the creation of the ICSID Convention
Taylor St. John
11. A genealogy of censurable conduct: Antecedents for an international minimum standard of investor conduct
Muin Boase
Index
