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Nicolás M. Perrone, Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play by Their Own Rules

Oxford University Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-19-886214-7

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This short essay reviews Nicolas M. Perrone’s Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play by Their Own Rules and reflects on how this book contributes to the debate on the origins of international investment law and the role of investors in shaping such an unbalanced international legal regime.

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  1. 1.

    Wheatley (1773), pp. 65–68.

  2. 2.

    Boyd White (1973).

  3. 3.

    Taylor (2004).

  4. 4.

    Bonnitcha et al. (2017), pp. 7 and 59–65.

  5. 5.

    Perrone (2021), p. 15.

  6. 6.

    Ibid. at 92. See among others Pahuja and Saunders (2019), pp. 141–174; and Flory (1990), pp. 606–613; Noudehou (1990), p. 31038.

  7. 7.

    Ibid. at 30.

  8. 8.

    Ibid. at 139.

  9. 9.

    Ibid, e.g., pp. 137 and 145.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., p. 8.

  11. 11.

    Ibid. at 12, citing Koskenniemi (2017), pp. 343–353.

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    Fiammetta Borgia

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Borgia, F. (2022). Nicolás M. Perrone, Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play by Their Own Rules. In: Hindelang, S., Moberg, A. (eds) YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions 2021. YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions, vol 2021. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/16495_2022_42

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