Title Page
ABSTRACT
ABBREVIATION
Contents
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 15
1.1. Background 15
1.2. Subject and purpose 18
1.3. Outline 19
1.4. Significant of dissertation 21
1.5. Method and material 22
CHAPTER II. HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW AND INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT DISPUTE SETTLEMENTS 24
2.1. The history of international investment law 24
2.1.1. The early development 24
2.1.1. Developments following World War II 25
2.1.2. Developments during the mid of 1960s to the 1990s 28
2.1.3. Recent developments (from 1990s until 2007 and 2008 until today) 29
2.2. The source of international investment law 31
2.2.1. Treaty 33
2.2.2. Customary international law 36
2.2.3. General principles of law 37
2.2.4. Judicial decisions 39
2.2.5. The concurrent of domestic law 39
2.3. International investment dispute settlements and the settlement under treaties that Vietnam participated 41
2.3.1. Domestic court of the hosting country 41
2.3.2. State - State dispute settlement (SSDS) 45
2.3.3. Investor - State dispute Settlement 50
CHAPTER III. STRUCTURE AND SUBSTANTIVE PROVISIONS INVESTMENT UNDER EVFTA 57
3.1. The scope of application 57
3.1.1. Definitions 57
3.2. Standards of protection 62
3.2.1. Expropriation 62
3.2.2. Fair and equitable treatment (FET) 65
3.2.3. Full protection and security 68
3.2.4. National treatment (NT) 70
3.2.5. Most - Favored Nation 72
3.2.6. Umbrella clause 74
3.3. Investment Court System (ICS) 78
3.3.1. Overall about Investment Court System 80
3.3.2. Composition of the Court 82
3.3.3. The appellate mechanism 85
3.3.4. Ethical Requirements 87
CHAPTER IV. ICS VERSUS ISDS FOR THE EVFTA 91
4.1. Advantages of ICS for Vietnam 91
4.1.1. Inconsistency issue 93
4.1.2. Impairment of the state's sovereignty to regulate issue 102
4.1.3. Arbitrators' bias issue 106
4.2. The lessons from investment disputes under ISDS 109
CHAPTER V. CONCLUSION 115
REFERENCE 119