Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 03/2010

The global financial crisis: will state emergency measures trigger international investment disputes?

ANNE VAN AAKEN, JÜRGEN KURTZ

March 2009

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Abstract

This perspective evaluates the possibility that emergency measures that countries are currently taking to mitigate the effects of the global financial crisis will give rise to liability under international investment law. (Reprinted in Chinese in the International Economic Cooperation Journal.)