Is There A Better Way? Alternative Methods of Treaty-Based, Investor-State Dispute Resolution
Article from: TDM 1 (2009), in Investor-State Disputes - International Investment Law
Introduction
The rapid growth over the last two decades in the total stock of international investment, now estimated at US$10 trillion,[1] and the increasing number of international direct investors, at present amounting to some 77,000 transnational corporations and their 770,000 affiliates,[2] have quite naturally led to an increase in potential and actual conflicts between investors and host countries.[3] Parallel to the growth in international investment has been the rapid increase in international investment treaties among states, which now number nearly 25004 and involve some 180 ...