Indemnification of Expropriation of Foreign Investments

Attraction of foreign investments is indebted to the establishment of legal security for those investments in the host country, and the most important aspect of this security is fair indemnification of the damages arising from expropriation of the investors of their properties. Whereas in any dispute there are usually two types of reasoning which are appropriate to the interests of either party, there are two or more types of reasoning and method for indemnification of expropriation of investments which depends on the origin of reasoning, namely, the investor country, the recipient country or and international institution. The present article has tried to discuss and analyze three approaches of maximum, minimum or medium levels in this respect.