1st Edition

International Energy Investment Law Balancing Host State and Foreign Investor Interests

By Hamid R. Younesi Copyright 2025
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses relational contract theory within the context of international energy investment agreements. Putting forth an exhaustive assessment of the field, the book provides a pragmatic resolution to the challenges inherent in the relationship between host states and foreign investors. Addressing critical queries confronting legal practitioners, arbitrators, judges, and scholars... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Balancing Equilibrium and Adaptability: An Analysis of Obsolescence and Relationality in International Energy Investment Contracts

3. Expropriation in the Energy Industry

4. Indirect Expropriation in International Energy Investment Agreements  

5. Assessing the Role of Contractual Certainty in International Energy Investment Agreements

6. Evaluating the Role of Contractual Flexibility in International Energy Investment Contracts

7. An Adaptive Framework for Enhancing International Energy Investment Agreements: Balancing Stakeholders’ Interests

 

Biography

Hamid R. Younesi (LL.B, LL.M, PhD, FHEA) is an Assistant Professor of Law at York Law School, University of York, UK. He is the director of the LLM in Law Programme and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE). Dr Younesi has published many scholarly articles in the areas of international investment law, energy law, the law of obligations, and international dispute settlement.