Proportionality and Deference in Investor-State Arbitration

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-107-45817-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 122, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law

In this study, Caroline Henckels examines how investment tribunals have balanced the competing interests of host states and foreign investors in determining state liability in disputes concerning the exercise of public power. Analyzing the concepts of proportionality and deference in investment tribunals' decision-making in comparative perspective, the book proposes a new methodology for investment tribunals to adopt in regulatory disputes, which combines proportionality analysis with an institutionally sensitive approach to the standard of review. Henckels argues that adopting a modified form of proportionality analysis would provide a means for tribunals to decide cases in a more consistent and coherent manner leading to greater certainty for both states and investors, and that affording due deference to host states in the determination of liability would address the concern that the decisions of investment tribunals unjustifiably impact on the regulatory autonomy of states.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henckels, Caroline

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Zivilprozessrecht Streitschlichtung, Mediation
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Proportionality and deference in theoretical perspective; 3. Operationalizing deference in the context of proportionality analysis: comparative approaches; 4. Methods of review employed by investment tribunals in regulatory disputes; 5. The development of an institutionally sensitive approach to proportionality analysis in investor-state arbitration; 6. Other issues affecting the method and standard of review in investor-state arbitration; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Henckels, Caroline
Caroline Henckels is Senior Lecturer in Law at Monash University, Melbourne, and was previously Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.