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"PREFACE" [2020] ELECD 442; in de Nanteuil, Arnaud (ed), "International Investment Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) xii

Book Title: International Investment Law

Editor(s): de Nanteuil, Arnaud

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: PREFACE

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

PREFACE




This textbook is not exactly a new book. It is the English version of a French textbook first
published with Pedone in 2014: Droit international de l'investissement. A second edition was
published in 2017.
At first, it was intended to be merely a French book on international investment law,
providing a synthetic overview of all the aspects of the subject: sources, actors, dispute
settlement, substantive rules of protection. In the second edition, new developments were
included on the relationships between investment law, human rights, and environmental law.
This book was written in order to fill the gap left by the absence of any textbook in French
dedicated to investment law. There were quite a number of them in English already. Thus a
lacuna existed, especially considering the fact that French language is still used (albeit less
frequently than before) in international disputes. Once published, Droit international de
l'investissement was a great success and was awarded a prize by the Académie des Sciences Morales
et Politiques which is part of the Institut de France.
However, this book is not only a French version of the already existing textbook since it is
inspired by the `continental' approach to law: its aim then, is to present international investment
law in a systematic manner. Its purpose is not only to describe the existing rules but also to
contribute to building a general understanding of the legal system of investment protection.
That is why it adopts a comprehensive approach and does ...