Receuil des Cours/Collected Courses

"In this course, Patrick Juillard, Professor at the Univeristy of Paris I, does not investigate the evolution of investment law as such, but rather at the evolution of the sources of investment law. The course is split in two unequal parts, explains Professor Juillard, because after all, and from a chronological point of view, they cover two periods of unequal importance. Indeed, as the author explains, the problems around investment law during the 1970s and 1980s were above all problems of protection, which one tried to solve by resorting successively to domestic law and international law; then, when it became obvious that international law was there to stay, by trying to make prevail non-conventional sources or conventional sources, depending on one's perspective. It was not until the 1990s, explains Professor Juillard, when the need for security made way for the need for mobility, that conventional sources prevailed over non-conventional sources, a change that was accompanied by a change from bilateralism to multilateralism"--Publisher's description.