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Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

The Law of Investment Treaties by Jeswald W. Salacuse ’60.

February 27, 2024

Tags Alumni Book

(Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2021).

As part of the Oxford International Law Library, this text focuses on investment treaties, which grant special international protection to foreign investors and give them a means to enforce those rights against States in which they have invested. “This book systematically examines the law of international investment treaties, particularly with respect to its origins, structure, content, and effects. Although the precise provisions of investment treaties are not uniform, virtually all investment treaties address the same issues. This book examines those issues in detail, including the scope of application, conditions for the entry of foreign investment, and general standards of treatment of foreign investments,” the publisher notes.

In this the third edition of the book, last updated in 2015, the author addresses the rapidly and dramatically changing landscape of investment treaty law. For example, the field has seen considerable growth in the number and scope of investment treaties, now estimated at 3,300, and investor-state arbitrations cases, which reached over 1,000 in 2020.