Introduction

The Energy Charter Treaty provides a multilateral legal framework towards the promotion and protection of energy investments. This book is devoted to a highly significant concept in this field - expropriation, which is examined through the prism of the Energy Charter Treaty while taking into consideration other international agreements, such as bilateral investment treaties, to which ECT member countries are party. This book analyses both direct and indirect forms of the expropriation. It does so by evaluating in detail the expropriation legislation in selected ECT member ...