About This Book
This book collects the studies of Professor Allan R. Brewer-Carías on arbitration in the public sector, whether for the resolution of disputes in public contracts or in the field of investment protection, which have been grouped into seven parts analyzing successively, Arbitration and contracts of national interest in the Venezuelan Commercial Arbitration Act of 1998; the jurisprudential acceptance of arbitration in the administrative Association Agreements signed on the occasion of the Oil Opening; the regime of international investment arbitration in the Venezuelan Investment Promotion and Protection Act of 1999, with particular reference to the issue of jurisdictional immunity and the expression of the State's willingness to settle such disputes in the text of the Act itself and its vicissitudes; the progression and regression in the acceptance of arbitration for the settlement of disputes in public contracts in Venezuela, and a study on "International Arbitration for the for the Protection of Investments,"