Shareholders' Claims for Reflective Loss in International Investment Law

Lukas Vanhonnaeker

2020年7月 · Cambridge University Press

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In recent years, investor-state tribunals have often permitted shareholders' claims for reflective loss despite the well-established principle of no reflective loss applied consistently in domestic regimes and in other fields of international law. Investment tribunals have justified their decisions by relying on definitions of 'investment' in investment agreements that often include 'shares', while the no-reflective-loss principle is generally justified on the basis of policy considerations pertaining to the preservation of the efficiency of the adjudicatory process and to the protection of other stakeholders, such as creditors. Although these policy considerations militating for the prohibition of shareholders' claims for reflective loss also apply in investor-state arbitration, they are curable in that context and must be balanced with policy considerations specific to the field of international investment law that weigh in favor of such claims: the protection of foreign investors in order to promote trade and investment liberalization.

作者简介

Lukas Vanhonnaeker is a post-doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, where he is conducting research in the field of international economic law with an emphasis on international investment law and arbitration and international corporate law.