Corporations and the Uses of Law: International Investment Arbitration as a “Multilateral Legal Order

• Published in: Oñati socio-legal series Vol. 1; no. 4; p. 5
• Main Author: Peter Muchlinski
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 01.05.2011
• Subjects: arbitration; International Investment Law; legal entrepreneurship; multilateral regimes; multinational enterprises; treaty shopping

This paper seeks to examine the claim, made by certain legal scholars, that international investment law, though based mainly on Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) is in fact a multilateral order that introduces principles of an emergent “global administrative law” into the regulation of state con...