Public Purpose in International Law

'The authors give us a learned volume that is rich in its reference to practice, masterfully broad in its reach to associated fields, and unusually deep in its reflection on how a complex river of judicial decisions and international and national instruments is shaping the course of what we will come to know as public purpose.' David Caron, Dean, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
'This book seeks a nuanced and novel approach to the vexed issue of the conflict between regulatory sovereignty of the state and the protection of foreign investment through the public purpose doctrine. It reworks the public policy doctrine in international law removing the identified flaws in the doctrine so that it could become a meaningful instrument for maintaining 'equipoise' between the two contending interests in international investment law. Through the doctrine, the authors seek to answer issues that arise from the contested legitimacy of investment arbitration. The insights that the work brings to public international law, investment arbitration and international investment law will enlighten the course of development of a difficult and confused area of the law for many years to come.' M. Sornarajah, C. J. Koh Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
'[This book] is certainly one of the most valuable contributions to the much-heated and at times unnecessarily emotional debate about the right balance to be struck between the regulatory space of States and investment protection.' J. Ostransky, Transnational Dispute Management