Nicolás Perrone's fascinating book explores the blueprint that had been made in the 1950s and 1960s for the setting up of a system of international investment protection. At a time when the reform of this system is being contemplated, this timely book calls our attention to the early thinking of a coalition of diverse leaders from business, law and finance, and to how arbitrators willingly carried out the ideas in the blueprint by building a legal superstructure
through the interpretation of the investment treaties.
Nicolás M Perrone is a Research Associate Professor at Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile. He has previously taught at Durham University and Universidad Externado de Colombia. Nicolás has been Visiting Professor at Universidad Nacional de San Martín, the International University College of Turin, and Università del Piemonte Orientale, a faculty member of the Institute for Global Law and Policy (Harvard Law School) and a Visiting Lecturer at
Xi'an Jiaotong School of Law. Nicolás has also consulted for the OECD, and worked as a legal fellow for UNCTAD.