The WTO and International Investment Law: Converging Systems

Kurtz, Jurgen

The WTO and International Investment Law: Converging Systems - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016. - xiii, 311p.

'Professor Kurtz book is a stimulating and evocative treatment of a field of contemporary and growing importance. His thorough scholarship impresses and his analysis and insight both inform and challenge. This is a very important work'.

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Pathologies of divergence
Five convergence factors
Inception: 1945 to the 1970s
National Treatment
National Treatment Across the the WTO and International investment Law
Comparing legal norms, political economy justifications and systems
Science as a common proxy for rational regulation
Science, risk regulation and international economic law
Common exceptions and derogations
The conceptual case for express flexibilities in international economic law

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