Aaron James (UC Irvine): Investor Rights as Nonsense (on Stilts)

Investor treaties increasingly recognize a right to be compensated for “indirect expropriation.”  This essay argues that certain ideas of foreign “investor rights” exhibit a certain confusion about the very nature of an investment, and the social relations of international trade that give risk-taking its social purpose. The argument develops both utilitarian and social contract theory positions, and challenges appeals to investor natural rights, especially natural promissory rights.

Date & time

Mon 08 Aug 2016, 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location

Coombs Seminar Room A

Event series

SHARE

Updated:  4 July 2017/Responsible Officer:  Head of School/Page Contact:  CASS Marketing & Communications