India and Bilateral Investment Treaties: Refusal, Acceptance, Backlash

by Prabhash Ranjan

(1st edition, Oxford University Press, 2019)

ISBN: 978-0199493746

Reviewed by Madhav Mallya

 

Dr. Prabhash Ranjan’s monograph, India and Bilateral Investment Treaties is a comprehensive and critical analysis of India’s engagement with the International Investment Law regime at a crucial time. India has recently terminated several Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) and has been widely criticised for her new Model BIT of 2016.1 The book also provides interesting general insights into India’s domestic approach towards international law and is representative of emerging mainstream academic literature on international investment law from South Asia and other developing regions which have been historically underrepresented in international law dialogue and discourse.