NAFTA Chapter Eleven Reports: Volume One: Primary Materials

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.;v. 1. Primary materials. Publisher Marketing: Here is the introductory volume to Kluwer's NAFTA Chapter Eleven Reports, an ongoing, comprehensive, and regularly augmented collection of full-text awards and other important decisions issued under the Agreement s investor-state arbitration provisions. The texts in the series are supplemented with expert synopses that offer a unique guide to emerging jurisprudence in the field. This initial volume collects and thoroughly indexes selected primary documents essential to a full understanding of the adjudications contained in subsequent volumes. It is designed to be a convenient, stand-alone reference valuable in connection with investor-state arbitrations of all kinds. Among the documents compiled are treaties, arbitration rules, and other legal texts relied upon by arbitrators and parties. The work orders the documents in a logical, user-friendly manner, and includes a detailed index and a full bibliography. The editors of this and subsequent volumes are recognized academics who regularly consult and publish on the investor-state arbitration field. This volume is sure to take is place among the most essential resources not only of NAFTA specialists, but of all practitioners and academics in the field of investor-state arbitration. Contributor Bio:  Dodge, William S William S. Dodge is Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is coauthor (with Detlev Vagts and Harold Koh) of Transnational Business Problems, 4th edition (2008) and has written extensively on the history of international law in American courts and on statutory interpretation in the international context.