Reconceptualizing International Investment Law from the Global South

by Fabio Morosini (Editor), Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107190030
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/26/2017
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Fabio Morosini is an associate professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he directs the Center for Law, Globalization and Development, and teaches and conducts research on international law, international trade, international investment, and methods in law. He is a research fellow at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil), leading a research project on South-South trade and investment relations. He is a member of the American Society of International Law and the Society of International Economic Law, director of the International Law Association (Brazil branch), and a member of the executive council of the Latin American International Economic Law Network (RED-DEI).

Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin is a full time associate professor of International Law and Director of the Global Law Study Center, at São Paulo Law School of Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil. She was one of the founders of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) and the current Director of the Latin American Network of International Economic Law (Rede LA-DEI).

Table of Contents

1. Reconceptualizing international investment law from the global South Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin and Fabio Morosini; 2. The South and alternative models of trade and investment regulation - Chinese investment and approaches to international investment agreements Vivienne Bath; 3. The Chilean experience in South-South investment and trade agreements Rodrigo Polanco Lazo; 4. Australia and the Asia-Pacific: the regulation of investment flows into Australia and the role of free trade agreements Vivienne Bath; 5. India's trade and investment agreements: striking a balance between investor protection rights and development concerns James Nedumpara; 6. Navigating between resistance and conformity with the international investment regime: the Brazilian agreements on cooperation and facilitation of investments (ACFIs) Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin and Fabio Morosini; 7. The new South African protection of investment act: striking a balance between attraction of FDI and redressing the Apartheid Legacies Malebakeng Agnes Forere; 8. Experimenting with international investment law: initiatives from the Global South Andrew Lang and Nicolás Marcelo Perrone; Index.