Keywords
Investments
Foreign
Arbitrage (Economic)
Economic analysis
foreign investment
international investment
investment arbitration
indirect expropriation
regulation
police powers
Administration
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Abstract
The author makes an analysis and presentation of the doctrine of police powers of the administration and the doctrine of the public intervention in the economic order that are base for the development of new regulation that, due to its effects, could be quoted as expropriatory of foreign investments protected by bilateral investment treaties (BIT) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). The author shows the tendency of the international Tribunals in this respect, centering his attention in the study of the regulation and the clause of expropriation as a limit of the police powers of the administration. Before approaching these points, the author studies the economics of foreign investment and expropriation. Later, he develops a Law and Economics analysis of indirect expropriation as a limit of the prescribed power and the police powers of the administration and finalizes with a reflection on the limits of regulation and public intervention by means of regulation, indicating that not only the expropriation clause constitutes a limit to regulation but also the clause of fair and equitable treatment present in all BITs.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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