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Investment Law of/for/before the Twenty-First Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2012

MARTINS PAPARINSKIS
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 225 - 237
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13 There is some uncertainty surrounding the origins of this work: possibly, only the first part of the work that dealt with war had been written in 1360. T. E. Holland, ‘Introduction’, in T. E. Holland (ed.), J. L. Brierly (trans.), and G. de Legnano, Tractatus De Bello, de Represaliis et De Duello (1917), ix, at xii, xxiv, xxvii.

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17 1967 OECD Draft Convention on the Protection of Foreign Property, (1968) 7 ILM 117, Art. 7(b)(ii) and (c).

18 The usual narrative would consider the invocation of state responsibility by the home state through diplomatic protection in the nineteenth-century spirit to be the traditional model, with the invocation of responsibility by the investor (whether as a beneficiary or as an agent) supplementing or replacing the traditional model. However, if one takes de Legnano as the starting point, the traditional model already provides for enforcement of responsibility by the injured private actor with an anterior and posterior review of whether the claim is well founded and properly satisfied. The modern regime, then, is only a return to the origins, with the intervening seven centuries of international law-making only crossing a few t's, by adding corporate citizens to the claimants, creating a few new primary obligations and moving the review mechanisms to the international level. Or, to put it the other way around, the criticism of undue interference of rules protecting foreign business interests with sovereignty might be misconceived because prototypes for these rules and regimes pre-date at least the Westphalian notions of sovereignty.

19 E.g., J. C. Rolf (trans.) and A. Gentili, De Iure Belli Libri Tres (1933), 100–1; F. W. Kelsey (trans.) and H. Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis libri tres (1925), 626–8; J. Drake (trans.) and C. Wolff, Jus gentium methodo scientifica pertractatum (1934), 302; E. de Vattel, Droit des gens ou principes de la loi naturelle (1758), 531–7.

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21 E.g., R. Phillimore, Commentaries upon International Law, Vol. 3 (1885), 19–20; L. Oppenheim, International Law, Vol. 1 (1905), 376; G. S. Baker (ed.), Halleck's International Law (1908), 505–6; E. Nys, Le droit international (1912), 266.

22 Venezuela–US, Belgium, Great Britain (1903–05), 9 RIAA 111–533; Venezuela–France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Norway (1903–05), 10 RIAA 1–770.

23 (1926–31) RIAA 1–746.

24 The US–Mexican General Claims Commission in the Neer case cited the statement to the effect by John Basset Moore, the editor of digests of US practice, LFH Neer and Pauline Neer (US v. Mexico), (1926) 4 RIAA 60, para. 4 (hereafter, Neer).

25 E. Borchard, Diplomatic Protection of Citizens Abroad (1915).

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27 S. Rosenne (ed.), League of Nations Conference for the Codification of International Law [1930], Vol. 4 (1975), 1442–3, 1456–65, 1474–7, 1583.

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32 Supra note 22.

33 See M. Paparinskis, ‘Equivalent Primary Rules and Differential Secondary Rules: Countermeasures in WTO and Investment Protection Law’, in T. Broude and Y. Shany (eds.), Multi-Sourced Equivalent Norms in International Law (2011), 259, at 260.

34 Convention (XII) relative à l'établissement d'une Cour internationale des aprises, Deuxième conférence internationale de la paix: Actes et documents (1907), at Tome I 668, Arts. 4, 5. The Convention never entered into force due to reasons unrelated to individual access to the Court. However, the negotiating materials demonstrate general acceptance of the principle of individual access to an international court; Deuxième conférence internationale de la paix: Actes et documents (1907), at Tome II 790–1, 811.

35 Recueil des décisions des Tribunaux Arbitraux Mixtes institués par les Traités de Paix, at Tomes I–X, 1922–30.

36 M. Paparinskis, ‘Limits of Depoliticisation in Contemporary Investor–State Arbitration’, (2010) 3 Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law forthcoming.

37 See the discussion of the benefits that individual access to an International Prize Court might provide to strong states, weak states, and individuals, Deuxième conférence internationale de la paix. Actes et documents, (1907) Tome II 790–1, 811.

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39 See the discussion of Neer, supra note 24, in most cases and legal writings that emphasize the conceptual distinctiveness and relative irrelevance of its paradigm.

40 E.g., M. Waibel et al., The Backlash against Investment Arbitration: Perceptions and Reality (2010).

41 Pleadings and submissions by states could constitute one element of state practice, even if the structure of mixed arbitration and the general non-availability of the full text of the pleadings would make any normative generalizations complicated. Arguably, if the almost total absence of state practice and investment-related dispute settlement between the 1930s and 1990s (or 1980s, if IUSCT is counted in) is considered to constitute a lacuna, it would be permissible to fill it by analogy. The exercise in analogy would look at the most similar regime within which states have engaged in comparable practice during the time period, and the clearest example of such a regime would probably be international human rights law.

42 Lowe, supra note 1, at 223–4.

43 Z. Douglas, The International Law of Investment Claims (2009).

44 E.g., C. Lardy (trans.) and J. C. Bluntschli, Le droit international codifié (1870, 1874, 1881, 1886, 1895); D. Field, Outlines of an International Code (1872, 1876); P. Fiore, Il diritto internazionale codificato e la sua sanzione guiridica (1890, 1898, 1900, 1909, 1915).

45 The Institute of International Law and the International Law Association; see M. Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations (2001), Chapter 1.

46 Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations [1949] ICJ Pleadings 111.

47 CMS Gas Transmission Company v. Argentina, ICSID Case No. ARB 01/08, Decision on Annulment of 25 September 2007, paras. 121–135.

48 Ibid., at paras. 129–135; Sempra Energy International v. Argentine Republic, ICSID Case No. ARB/02/16, Decision on Annulment of 29 June 2010, paras. 186–209.

49 Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. Ponderosa Assets, L.P. v. Argentina, ICSID Case No. ARB/01/3, Decision on the Application for Annulment, paras. 355–395.

50 Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man) v. Russia (PCA Case No AA 227, Interim Award on Jurisdiction and Admissibility), paras. 244–398.

51 M. Paparinskis, ‘Investment Treaty Interpretation and Customary Investment Law: Preliminary Remarks’, in C. Brown and K. Miles (eds.), Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (2011), 65.

52 Saluka Investments BV v. Czech Republic, UNCITRAL Case, Partial Award of 17 March 2006.

53 Mondev v. US, ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/99/2, Award of 11 October 2002; Loewen v. US, ICSID Additional Facility Case No. ARB(AF)/98/3, Award of 26 June 2003.

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55 Eustathiadès, C. T., ‘Les sujets de droit international et le responsabilité internationale: Nouvelles tendances’, (1953) 81 RCADI 397Google Scholar, at 597, 599.

56 For a brief overview of the debate, see Paparinskis, M., ‘Investment Arbitration and the Law of Countermeasures’, (2008) 79 BYIL 264Google Scholar, at 325–7.

57 Toto Construzioni Generali S.P.A. v. Lebanon, ICSID Case No. ARB/07/12, Decision on Jurisdiction of 11 September 2009, paras. 158–160.

58 Cf. M. Wood, ‘“Constitutionalization” of International Law: A Sceptical Voice’, in K. Kaikobad and M. Bohlander (eds.), International Law and Power: Perspectives on Legal Order and Justice (2009).

59 E.g., Case 459/03, Commission v. Ireland, [2006] ECR I-4635, paras. 168–183.

60 Lowe, supra note 1, at 224–5.