Reconceptualizing International Investment Law from the Global South

Fabio Morosini, Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781107190030
• eBook ISBN: 9781108119054
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: International Law
• Index: Law

This book shows how the current reform in investment regulation is part of a broader attempt to transform the international economic order. Countries in the North and South are currently rethinking how economic order should be constituted in order to advance their national interests and preferred economic orientation. While some countries in the North seek to create alternative institutional spaces in order to promote neoliberal policies more effectively, some countries in the South are increasingly skeptical of this version of economic order and are experimenting with alternative versions of legal ordering that do not always sit well with mainstream versions promoted by the North. While we recognize that there are differences in approaches to the investment regimes proposed by countries in the South, we identify commonalities that could function as the founding pillars of an alternative economic order.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• Notes on contributors
• Foreword
• 1 Reconceptualizing International Investment Law from the Global South
• 2 The South and Alternative Models of Trade and Investment Regulation
• 3 The Chilean Experience in South-South Investment and Trade Agreements
• 4 Australia and the Asia-Pacific
• 5 India’s Trade and Investment Agreements
• 6 Navigating between Resistance and Conformity with the International Investment Regime
• 7 The New South African Protection of Investment Act
• 8 Experimenting with International Investment Law
• 9 Foreign Investment, Development Strategies, and the New Era in International Economic Law
• Index