Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play by Their Own Rules
Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination:
How Foreign Investors Play by Their Own Rules.
By Nicolás M. Perrone.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Reviewed by Elena Blanco
 
Investment treaty law and arbitration have embedded themselves so firmly into the legal imagination of neoliberal corporate globalisation and its business ontology1 that there appears to be little scope, if any, to even imagine an alternative.2 And yet, this is, according to Perrone, exactly what we need to do: imagine a new legal reality that counteracts the entrenched legal practice created out of the imagination of the 1950s and 60s corporate ‘norm entrepreneurs'.

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