Product Description: This book addresses all aspects of investment protection treaty tribunals' temporal jurisdiction. Specifically, the book examines: the application of the temporal rule to investment protection treaties, including the aspect of the rule providing that a State cannot breach a treaty through acts occurring before the treaty comes into force u circumstances under which a State can breach a treaty through continuing or composite acts beginning before the treaty comes into force * the consequence of State acts after the treaty is signed but before it is ratified * time limits * disputes arising before an investment protection treaty comes into force...read more