@article{41721, note = {Includes bibliographical references and index}, author = {Heath, Christopher.,}, url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/41721}, title = {Intellectual Property and International Dispute Resolution.}, abstract = {Investor dispute tribunals, as provided for in many bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, are suspected of intransparency, because proceedings are not public, of unequal treatment, because they give foreign investors a right of action where domestic investors would have none, and of undermining democracy, because they allow democratically enacted laws to be challenged with no possibility of appeal. In this important book – the first in-depth treatment of the interface between intellectual property rights and international dispute resolution – a number of prominent legal scholars and practitioners examine the extent to which challenges against domestic legislation based on an alleged direct or indirect expropriation of intellectual property rights may be justified.}, recid = {41721}, pages = {xx, 266 pages ;}, }