On The Unification Of Legal Rules Of International Investment

In recent years international investment has made a great development and has increasing impact on the international economy, even on the whole international society. The rapid development of the international investment requires the unification of its legal rules in the world, but there are still many different opinions about how to reach an unified agreement on international investment. So it impedes the more international investment's development in some degree. Unification of the legal rules of international investment is inevitable and how to eliminate differences among states with a feasible plan for unification has become a key. Basing on it, after introducing the development of legal rules of international investment and problems of the unification, the writer puts forward some conceptions about establishing the unified legal rules of international investment by using the comparative analytical method and analyzing the history. At last, the writer clarifies the Chinese Government's Stand on this question.The thesis consists of four parts. Chapter 1 outlines the development of the international investment and its legal rules. Chapter 2 focuses on the main problems about how to get the unification of legal rules of the international investment, moreover, expounds how to treat the problems correctively. Chapter 3 shows the conceptions about establishing the unified legal rules of international investment. The most important way to accomplish it is to enact a comprehensive unified agreement on international investment with strong binding force. At this point, we should pay more attention to these following: First, negotiations to enact the unified agreement on international investment should be made in the WTO. Second, the unified agreement, establishing on the basis of MAI draft and other investment-related treaties, should follow the trend of international investment and have the feasibility to apply at the same time. What's more, differences among the states and the harmonization between the unified agreement and other relevant treaties are also very...