Some Thoughts Related to State Responsibility
Article from: TDM 5 (2016), in Latin America
Introduction
The purpose of this article is to describe how State responsibility is activated when public officers or agencies while acting in their official capacity cause harm to third parties. We will make special emphasis in those cases in which the victim of the damage is a foreign investor and the damage affects his investment. Damage produced as a consequence of wrongful acts executed by State officers while acting in their official capacity will normally activate State responsibility under the State own laws. Besides, under certain circumstances, these same wrongful behaviors ...