Abstract

The investment treaty regime comes at its crossroad: with faltering multilateral reforms, investment arbitration is increasingly descending into the national level. Investment arbitration is undergoing institutional trial-outs in multiple dimensions and in multiple directions. Enforcement of investment arbitration awards is one of the key issues. This book reveals the clash of legal cultures and legal institutions in areas of enforcement of investment treaty arbitration awards: the overlaps of general and specialized regimes of recognition and enforcement, different conceptualizations of ...