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The roller coaster continues
From: Sold Down the Yangtze
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Awards of compensation
for foreign investors have risen to billions of dollars,
and now tens of billions. Lawyers have developed new and
creative arguments for compensating foreign investors, helped
by the arbitrators’ expansive interpretations. Hundreds of
cases are ongoing.
Contributors
Gus Van Harten
As an expert in investment deals and international law, GUS VAN HARTEN is uniquely qualified to explain what the Canada-China agreement means for Canada. He is currently a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, working previously as a tenured faculty member in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom. He has written over twenty academic studies on investment treaties, and has provided commentary to governments, international organizations, and media such as Bloomberg, the CBC, The Globe and Mail, the Guardian, and the Toronto Star. He lives in Burlington, Ontario.