January 2016

Volume 32 - Issue 2

India’s New Model BIT: A Shift Towards Protecting Host State Sovereignty

Nikesh Patel, MJIL Staff Member Recently, the Government of India approved a new Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). The Model BIT will provide the terms and conditions for India’s future trade negotiations, including the renegotiations of some its 83 existing BITs and ongoing negotiations with the United States.[1] Often, the difficulty for structuring a BIT…

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