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The Place Of Treaties In International Investment, Eustace Chikere Azubuike
The Place Of Treaties In International Investment, Eustace Chikere Azubuike
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
This paper is divided into seven parts. Part 1 traces the history of foreign investment treaties and provides the factors that led to the emergence of the current investment regime. Part 2 discusses the significance of treaties in the vexed question of whether or not there is a hierarchy of international law sources. Part 3 examines treaty-making in the current international investment regime – visiting the argument about whether or not the provisions of investment treaties have ripened into customary international law, highlighting the dominance of bilateral investment treaties over multilateral investment treaties, offering explanation for the near absence of …
The New Lex Mercatoria, Francesco Galgano
The New Lex Mercatoria, Francesco Galgano
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
We live in a post-industrial era. We learn this from sociologists who demonstrate it by showing the index of the number of industrial employees is lower than that of service employees, thus, a transition from an industrial to a post-industrial era. The United States was the first to pass this point in 1956, while Italy passed it in 1982. Post-industrial society is not just a society of automation. The prefix "post" implies other aspects as well. Besides an industrial society there is also a financial society. What is new is not only how the goods are produced (with machines controlled …