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May 2019
39m 56s

The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: ...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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What explains the rise of investor-state arbitration? To the extent that investor-state arbitration had founding fathers, what were their motivations, what constraints did they have, what was their thinking? Using documents from the American, British, German, and Swiss archives, this talk will revisit three moments: the initial vision for a standalone arbitr ... Show More
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