Description:
The first volume in the Silk Road Studies in International Economic Law Series, China and International Investment Law: Twenty Years of ICSID Membership examines cutting-edge issues of international investment law and arbitration in interaction with China, the second largest economy of the world. With particular attention to ongoing major negotiations of bilateral and regional investment treaties, including the TPP, TTIP and China's BIT negotiations with the EU and USA, the collection is timely, thorough, and incisive.
All readers with an interest in the latest developments in international investment law in general, and the Chinese foreign investment regime in particular, will find an indispensable new resource in this collection of essays from esteemed experts in the field.
The volume originated from the "China and ICSID" International Workshop and Roundtable on International Investment Law and Arbitration, organized to commemorate the 20th anniversary of China's accession to the ICSID Convention.
Brief description:
Editor Wenhua Shan, Ph.D., Trinity College, Cambridge, is the Ministry of Education Yangtze River Chair Professor of International Economic Law and the founding Dean of Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Law, Senior Fellow of Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge and the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law. He has published monographs and articles in such journals as the AJCL and EJIL.
Assistant Editor Jinyuan Su, Ph.D., Xi'an Jiaotong University, is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean at Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Law. He has published one book and many articles on international and comparative law.
Review Quotes: "This book provides readers with an examination of Chinese international investment law-both inside and outside, both retrospective and prospective, both descriptive and constructive. Chinese investment law has been widely recognized as having increasing implications on international investment law as a whole, though it is too early to draw a definite conclusion as to the extent and nature of such implications. In some sense, it is this uncertainty that endows this book with a fantastic reading value." - ICSID Review
"The book makes an important contribution to the recent literature on China's role in the international investment law regime, which includes International Investment Law: A Chinese Perspective by Guiguo Wang (2014) and Chinese Investment Treaties: Policies and Practice by Wenhua Shan and Norah Gallagher (2009). It will be of use to students, academics, and practitioners alike in explaining China's evolving participation in the international investment legal regime and likely future developments." - Kate Apostolova and Lexi Menish, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer