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Reports of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations
(2011)
Abstract
This comprehensive two-volume work is a collection of determinations from OPIC, the US governmental political risk insurance provider, in the form of its Memoranda of Determinations from 1966 to 2010. This reference work is the first to make the underlying primary material available to the investment law, political risk and academic communities. The authors have made the claims determinations more accessible with the inclusion of headnote summaries for all determinations. The determinations reflect the decisions of OPIC under US and international law and therefore have a significant impact on its future claims determinations. They reveal what types of claims have been honored for expropriation, political violence or convertibility/ transferability restrictions. Users of political risk insurance worldwide will find this collection invaluable in understanding what events are and are not in fact covered, and deciding whether to obtain insurance coverage. These OPIC determinations will also contribute to the development of arbitral jurisprudence regarding government actions that are alleged to be in violation of investment protections found in investment treaties and investment law. They are additionally of interest in the context of the presentation and determination of future OPIC claims and decision making by other political risk insurance providers.

Attached are also reviews of this book:

S. Prakash Sethi, "Book Review", Transnational Corporations, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2016.
P.M. Protopsaltis, "Book Review", Transnational Dispute Management, January 2012.
Alberto Tita, "Book Review", The Journal of World Investment and Trade, 2011.
Robert Wray PLLC, "Learning from experience: An interview with three experts", Political risk insurance newsletter, volume VII, Issue 1, May 2011.

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Publication Date
2011
Editor
Mark Kantor, Michael D. Nolan and Karl P. Sauvant
Publisher
New York: Oxford University Press
Citation Information
Mark Kantor, Michael D. Nolan and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., Reports of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 2 vols.