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The U.S.-Japan Trading Relationship And Its Effects, Richard Rosecrance
The U.S.-Japan Trading Relationship And Its Effects, Richard Rosecrance
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
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The Utility Of Bilateral Investment Treaties In The Formulation Of Customary International Law, Bernard Kishoiyian
The Utility Of Bilateral Investment Treaties In The Formulation Of Customary International Law, Bernard Kishoiyian
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
In this paper, I propose to investigate the utility of BITs in the formulation of customary international law in the area of state responsibility for the protection of alien property. It is my thesis that the frenetic conclusion of BITs is occasioned by the uncertainty that pervades international investment law since the advent of the developing countries on the international scene, and secondly, that international law has not kept pace with the developments that have taken place in the last thirty years in foreign direct investment. To the extend that this is so, I contend that each BIT is nothing …