- Additional Authors
- Pohl, Joachim.
- Description
- 42 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- Investment treaty law reflects a permanent tension between stability and flexibility. Stability nurtures predictability, while flexibility helps legal systems stay in alignment with changing circumstances and evolving needs. This paper establishes an inventory of the mechanisms in investment treaty law that provide flexibility and surveys relevant treaty practice. The paper: analyses the drivers of change in investment treaty law; provides an inventory of countries' options – and limits – to alter their positioning vis-à-vis investment treaty law through ‘exit' and ‘voice'; and analyses treaty provisions on, and States' use of, flexibility in investment treaty law. The paper finds that most treaties provide for little or no mechanism for countries to influence the use and interpretation of investment treaty law. The paper further finds that treaty provisions for ‘exit' are likewise geared to provide stability rather than flexibility. Analysis of State practice presented in the paper shows that States rarely make use of the mechanisms available to them to influence treaty use and interpretation and that ‘exit' from the system has likewise been rare so far.
- Series Statement
- OECD Working Papers on International Investment, 1815-1957 ; no.2015/02
- Uniform Title
- OECD Working Papers on International Investment, no.2015/02.
- Subject
- Finance and Investment
- LCCN
- 10.1787/5js7rhd8sq7h-en
- OCLC
- oecd-lib-003592
- Author
Gordon, Kathryn.
- Title
Investment Treaties over Time - Treaty Practice and Interpretation in a Changing World [electronic resource] / Kathryn Gordon and Joachim Pohl
- Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2015.
- Series
OECD Working Papers on International Investment, 1815-1957 ; no.2015/02
OECD Working Papers on International Investment, 1815-1957 ; no.2015/02.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Finance and Investment
- Added Author
Pohl, Joachim.
- Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/5js7rhd8sq7h-en doi