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Protection of Legitimate Expectations in Investment Treaty Arbitration
A Theory of Detrimental Reliance

Examines the philosophical foundation of legitimate expectations to create a normative framework for use in investment treaty arbitration

Teerawat Wongkaew (Author)

9781108474283, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 February 2019

306 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.2 cm, 0.57 kg

'This is indeed a serious and thoughtful attempt at clarifying a concept too often invoked outside any elaborated definition; a book which, for sure, will be as interesting and useful for practitioners as for scholars interested in the current development of the international law of investments.' Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

This book evaluates the core of the concept of legitimate expectations from first principles in moral philosophy. It adopts an unconventional approach by examining this topic from a deep, philosophical perspective and delves into the debates on the binding nature of promise in moral philosophy. It then develops a doctrinal structure for the standard of protection. The author places the key premise of the book on the possibility of deriving firm conclusions from the debate and on creating a set of precise and prescriptive 'guidelines of the application of legitimate expectations'. The features of this book are threefold: first, a significant body of literature on moral philosophy is assimilated; second, core philosophical principles are extracted and expressed as a normative framework to resolve concrete cases; third, the author analysed a vast number of investment treaty awards against the underlying framework.

Part I. Why Do We Need a Theory of Legitimate Expectations?: 1. Introduction
2. The formalist conception of legitimate expectations and different paradigms of the investment treaty regime: a critique
Part II. What is the Theory of Legitimate Expectations?: 3. Theoretical foundations for the use of moral philosophy of promise and conceptualisation of legitimate expectations
4. The voluntarist conception of legitimate expectations and enforcement of sovereign promise
5. 'Letting investors down', protection of trust, and assurance conception of legitimate expectations
6. Protecting against investors' detrimental reliance: reliance conception of legitimate expectations
7. In search of the most suitable conception of legitimate expectations
Part III. What is the Application of the Theory of Legitimate Expectations?: 8. Normative consequences of the reliance theory of legitimate expectations
9. Rethinking remedies for a breach of legitimate expectations: corrective justice and reliance damages.

Subject Areas: Treaties & other sources of international law [LBBC], International law [LB]

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