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Administradores públicos, economistas, historiadores, cientistas políticos, abogadas, contadoras auditoras hacen realidad la multidisciplinariedad en el CAMIS. Indagar sobre la incorporación social en Chile es su desafío. Abriéndose a interpretaciones innovadoras que expliquen la diversidad del país.

INVESTIGADORES

Dr. Nicolás Perrone

Investigador de CAMIS

Escuela de Derecho
Facultad de Derecho

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PUBLICACIONES / PUBLISHED WORKS

Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How foreign investors play by their own rules
Perrone, Nicolás M. (Oxford University Press 2021) 272 pages.
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    • Perrone, Nicolás M., Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How foreign investors play by their own rules (Oxford University Press 2021) 272 pages.
      Positively reviewed in: European Journal of International Law, Journal of International Economic Law, Business History Review, Yearbook of International Investment Law & Policy, German Yearbook of International Law, The Extractive Industries and Society, Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions 2021, Austrian Review of International and European Law, and International Trade and Business Law Review.
    JOURNAL ARTICLES
    • Perrone, Nicolás M.; Álvaro Santos, “A New Trade Agenda for Common Prosperity”, Latin America Political Economy and Globalization concept paper, work-in-progress.
    • Perrone, Nicolás, M., “Revisiting the Latin American International Economic Law Project: Is a model for global prosperity possible?”, Global Policy, (Special Issue on the New Washington Consensus), work-in-progress.
    • Perrone, Nicolás, M.; Domingo Lovera; Nicole Selamé, “Unexpected partners? Constitutions and investment treaties as the backbone of Latin American extractivist legality”, Third World Quarterly (Special Issue on Extractive Constitutionalism), workin-progress.
    • Galán Alexis; Nicolás, M. Perrone, “The negotiations of the OECD Draft Convention on the Protection of Foreign Property: Unpacking the early blueprint of international investment agreements”, European Journal of International Law, under review.
    • Perrone, Nicolás, M., “International Law, Acceleration and Desynchronization”, European Journal of International Law (Symposium on Time and International Law), forthcoming.
    • Cotula, Lorenzo; Nicolás M. Perrone, “Seeing Santurbán through ISDS: A socio-legal case study” 37 Leiden Journal of International Law 440-461.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Locating the 1948 Economic Agreement of Bogotá: The rise and fall of Latin America’s International Economic Law Project” 25 Journal of the History of International Law (Symposium on the 1948 Pact of Bogotá) 529-559.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Governing Global Capitalism: A Lawyer's Perspective” Business History Review (2023) 614-620 [previously published in Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-081, June 2022,
      https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=62651].
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Investment treaty law and the ontological occupation of territories: Locating the concerns of local communities” 24 Journal of World Investment & Trade (2023) 437-460.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M.; Nicole Selamé Glena, ‘Climate Change and Technology Transfer: A Transnational Analysis’ 13 Transnational Legal Theory – Special Issue COP26 (2022) 261-286.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “How Corporations Shape International Economic Law” (2022) 33 European Journal of International Law 1059-1060 (Letter to the editors).
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., ‘Bridging the gap between foreign investor rights and obligations: towards remaining the international laws of foreign investment’ 7:3 Business and Human Rights Journal (2022) 375-396.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Local communities, extractivism, and international investment law: the case of five Colombian communities,” 19:6 Globalizations (2022) 837-853.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M.; Greg Shaffer, “Introduction to the Symposium on International Economic Law and Its Others” 116American Journal of International Law Unbound (2022) 90-95.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Speed, Law and the Global Economy: how economic acceleration contributes to inequality and precarity,” 33:3 Leiden Journal of International Law (2020) 557-576.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Imagining Alternatives? Latin American Scholarship on International Economic Law and the Global Economic Order,” 37:1 Chicana/Chicano Latina/Latino Law Review – UCLA (2020) 83-108.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “The “Invisible” Local Communities: Foreign investor obligations, inclusiveness, and the international investment regime,” 113 American Journal of International Law Unbound (2019) 16-21.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “UNCTAD World Investment Reports 1991-2015: 25 years of narratives justifying and balancing foreign investor rights,” 19:1 Journal of World Investment & Trade (2018) 7-40.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “The Emerging Global Right to Investment: Understanding the reasoning behind foreign investor rights,” 8:4 Journal of International Dispute Settlement (2017) 673-694.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “The international investment regime and local populations: are the weakest voices unheard?,” 7:3 Transnational Legal Theory (2016) 383-405. (Spanish translation in Latorre Restrepo, Sergio; Enrique Alberto Prieto Ríos y Sheila Giraldo Duque, El Debate Sobre la Propiedad en Transición Hacia la Paz: Desafíos a la Propiedad en el Marco de la Justicia Transicional en Colombia, [Universidad del Norte, Universidad del Rosario 2021]) 612-685.
    • Gomez, Andrei; Nicolás M. Perrone; Enrique Prieto Ríos, “Foreign Investors and Peace in Colombia,” 18:3 International Community Law Review (2016) 223-247.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “The International Investment Regime after the Global Crisis of Neoliberalism: Rupture or Continuity?,” 23:2 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (2016) 603-627.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “The Governance of Foreign Investment at a Crossroad: Is an overlapping consensus the way forward?,” 15:1 Global Jurist (2015) 1-28.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “The International Investment Regime and Foreign Investors’ Rights: Another view of a popular story,” 11:3 Manchester Journal of International Economic Law (2014) 397-420.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Restrictions to Foreign Acquisitions of Agricultural Land in Argentina and Brazil,” 10:1 Globalizations (2013) 205-209.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Foreign investment in Agriculture and High Commodity Prices: A contribution to understanding Mercosur’s present challenge,” 35 Trade and Integration Journal, Inter-American Development Bank - INTAL (2012) 61-68.

    BOOK CHAPTERS

    • Perrone, Nicolás M.; Nicole Selamé, “Investment treaties and Local Communities: Mapping the literature, thinking ahead” in Barnali Choudhury, Addressing the Sustainability Impacts of Corporations (Edward Elgar), forthcoming.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Foreign Investment” in Tony Anghie, Michael Fakhri, Vasuki Nesiah Karin Mickelson and B. S. Chimni, Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (Edward Elgar) forthcoming (https://ssrn.com/abstract=4571219).
    • Perrone, Nicolás M. and David Schneiderman, “World Trade and Investment” in Liliana Obregón et al. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on International Law and the Americas (Oxford University Press) forthcoming (https://ssrn.com/abstract=4149745).
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “The International Trade Order and Development” in Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava and Sundhya Pahuja (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development (Oxford University Press 2024) 187-206.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Expropriation,” in David Schneiderman and Gus Van Harten (Eds.), Rethinking Investment Law (Oxford University Press 2023) 64-88.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Investment Law and Policy Developments in the Extractive Industries 2020” in Lisa Sachs et al. (Eds.), Investment Law and Policy Yearbook 2020 (Oxford University Press) 239-254.
    • Cotula, Lorenzo; Nicolás M. Perrone, “Investors ’ International Law and its Asymmetries: The Case of Local Communities,” in Jean Ho and Mavluda Sattorova (Eds.), Investors’ International Law (Bloomsbury 2021) 71-88.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “International Investment Law as Transnational Law,” in Peer Zumbansen (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law (Oxford University Press 2021) 291-313.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Taking Local Expectations Seriously: A Fresh Start for Foreign Investment Governance?,” in Akbar Rasulov and John Haskell (Eds.), New Voices and New Perspectives in International Economic Law (Springer 2019) 113-131
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Making Local Communities Visible: A way to prevent the potentially tragic consequences of foreign investment?,” in Alvaro Santos, Chantal Thomas and David Trubek (Eds.), World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined: A
      Progressive Agenda for an Inclusive Globalization (Anthem Press 2019) 171-182.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M.; David Schneiderman, “International Economic Law's Wreckage: Depoliticization, Inequality, Precarity,” in Emilios Christodoulidis, Ruth Dukes and Marco Goldoni (Eds.), Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory (Edward Elgar 2019) 446-472.
    • Lang, Andrew; Nicolás M. Perrone “Experimenting with International Investment Law: Initiatives from the Global South,” in Michelle Sanchez Raton and Fabio Morosini (Eds.), Reconceptualizing International Investment Law from the Global South (Cambridge University Press 2017) 284-292.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Neoliberalism and the Impossibility of an Economic Sovereign: Property, contracts and the case of foreign investment relations,” in Honor Brabazon (Ed.), Neoliberal Legality (Routledge 2016) 45-62.

    BOOK REVIEWS (SOLICITED)

    • Perrone, Nicolás M. “Book Review: Jorge L. Esquirol, The Fictions of Latin American Law and their Strategic Uses: Legitimacy and Failure in Latin American Legal Systems (Cambridge University Press 2020),” 63 Latin American Politics and Society (2021) 165-8.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M. “Book Review: The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy. By John Linarelli, Margot Salomon And Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah (Oxford University Press, 2018),” 22:1 Journal of International Economic Law (2019) 289-95.

    POLICY BRIEFS

    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “International Investment Agreements and Climate Change: What is the Role that International Investment Agreements Play in the Transition to a Green Economy?” APEC Investment Experts’ Group, July 2024.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Technology Transfer and Climate Change: A developing country perspective” South Centre Climate Policy Brief 28, November 2022.
    • Ferrando, Tomaso, Nicolás M. Perrone, Olabisi D. Akinkugbe and Kangping Du, “Pathways to Just, Equitable and Sustainable Trade and Investment Regimes” Study commissioned by the Fairtrade Germany and Fairtrade Austria, 29 July 2021, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3895640.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “The ISDS Reform Process: The missing development agenda” South Centre Investment Policy Brief 19, March 2020.
    • Cotula, Lorenzo; Nicolás M. Perrone, “Reforming investor-state dispute settlement: what about third-party rights?” International Institute for Environment and Development Briefing (Briefing to be submitted to UNCITRAL Group 3 – ISDS reform).

    SELECTED ONLINE PEER-REVIEWED BLOGS

    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Perrone: Solidarity & the Charter of Economic Rights,” Progressive International, 28 March 2023. Translated into Spanish in Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla (ed.), Por el equilibrio del mundo El nuevo orden económico internacional 1974-2024 (CLACSO, 2024) 123-132.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Foreign investment, knowledge and international arbitration: inside a research trip,” International Institute for Environment and Development, Guest blog (22 June 2020).
    • Morosini, Fabio; Nicolás M. Perrone; Michelle Sanchez Raton, “Strengthening multi-stakeholder cooperation in the international investment regime: The Brazilian model,” 263 Columbia FDI Perspectives (2019), pp. 1-3.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M.; Gustavo Rojas, “Brazilian BITs: more than a new investment treaty model?,” 159 Columbia FDI Perspectives (2015), pp. 1-2.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “The International Investment Regime at a Crossroad: Should we be rethinking foreign investment governance?,” 6:1 International Treaty News Quarterly (2015), pp. 12-14.
    • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Responsible Agricultural Investment: Is there a significant role for the law to promote sustainability?,” 38 Columbia FDI Perspectives (2011), pp. 1-2.

    PUBLICATIONS IN SPANISH (SELECTED PUBLICATIONS)

    JOURNAL ARTICLES

      • Perrone, Nicolás M., “¿Un Espacio para Pensar Alternativas? La Academia Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional Económico frente al Orden Económico Global,” 36 Revista de Derecho del Estado, Universidad Externado de Colombia (2016), pp. 199-226 (Portuguese version published in 13:1 Brazilian Journal of International Law 2016, pp. 27-43; English version published in 37:1 Chicana/Chicano Latina/Latino Law Review – UCLA 2020, pp. 83-108).
      • Perrone, Nicolás M., “Los Derechos de los Inversores Extranjeros sobre la Tierra según los Tratados de Protección de Inversiones: Una visión desde Latinoamérica,” 9 Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional (2016), pp. 273-308. Reimpreso en Alvear, Helena, Propiedad sobre la tierra en Colombia. Viejos y nuevos dilemas sobre la distribución (UniAndes 2021).

    PROYECTOS DE INVESTIGACION / RESEARCH PROYECTS

    • 2025 FONDECYT, ¿El Derecho Internacional Económico en crisis? Desafíos y oportunidades para Chile con miras al desarrollo sostenible, ANID Chile, Investigador Principal [1250341]
    • Building Lithium Governance in Peru: Comparative analysis of policies and practices in the Lithium Rectangle, ProCiencia, Perú, Investigador Asociado [PE501087969-2024].
    • Latin American Political Economy and Globalization, Hewlett Foundation (Co-Director, together with Álvaro Santos, Georgetown University) [2023-01642-GRA].
    • 2022 FODENCYT, El derecho internacional de inversiones y las comunidades locales: ¿Una relación problemática?, ANID Chile, Principal Investigator [11220095].
    • IAS Residential Fellowship (2019), University of Warwick, Principal Investigator.
    • Foreign Investment and Local Communities (2018), GCRF-RCUK, Principal Investigator.
    • Recovering Economic Sovereignty in times of Brexit and Trump (2017), GPI Funding.
    • The future of Trade Law & Policy (2017), Santander Latin American Mobility Grant.
    • Local communities and Foreign Investment (2016), ESRC IAA - Mentoring Impact Scheme.
    • The narratives of property in the International Investment Regime (2015) Juan Celaya Grant, Oñati IISL, Principal Investigator.
    • Managing Foreign Investment in Natural Resources: Can Colombia learn from Qatar? (2014), Doha-Santander Grant, IGLP, Principal

    PRESENCIA EN LOS MEDIOS / MEDIA COVERAGE

    • Ponente invitado, “Potent Threat? Investment Arbitration and Just Transition in the Global South”, 2024 Forum on Re-imagining Earth System Governance in an Era of Polycrisis, 15 de octubre de 2024.
    • Ponente invitado, “Revisiting the Latin American International Economic Law Project: Is a model for global prosperity possible?”, The New Washington Consensus and the Changing Landscape of International Economic Law and Policy, DurhamLaw School, 10-11 de julio de 2024.
    • Ponente invitado, “Lost to History? Latin America and the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States”, Johns Hopkins University, International Law in the Global South (ILIGS) Speaker Series, 5 de febrero de 2024.
    • Ponente invitado, “Imaginarios sobre Derecho y Economía Política”, Universidad Diego Portales, Escuela de Verano: “Derecho y Economía Política en Latinoamérica”, 12 de diciembre de 2023.
    • Ponente invitado, “Addressing the Sustainability Impacts of Corporations”, Osgoode Law School, 26-27 de octubre de 2023.
    • Ponente invitado, “International Economic Law & Investment: African and Latin American perspectives”, TWAILR Academy 2023, Democratizing International Law, 17-20 de julio, Bogotá, Colombia.
    • Profesor invitado, “Metodologia e Pesquisa Aplicada em Direito Internacional Econômico e Desenvolvimento”, PPG Direito, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, 5-7 de diciembre de 2022.
    • Ponente invitado, “Lecture: Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination”, Shanghai International Studies University, 7 de junio de 2022.
    • Ponente invitado, “Chile’s Draft Constitution: Economic Rights in Context”, Canadian Council for the Americas, 2 de junio de 2022.
    • Ponente invitado, “Webinar on international investment agreements and climate action”, UNCTAD y International Institute for Environment and Development, 4 de febrero de 2022.
    • Ponente invitado, “Roundtable: The future of international investment regulation”, 2021 Society of International Economic Law Global Conference, Rethinking Global Economic Governance, Università Bocconi, 7 de julio de 2021.
    • Ponente invitado, “Capitalism's Metamorphoses”, Sciences Po Law School, Globinar Law, Capitalism and Global Crisis: Revisi(ti)ng the Canons, 22 de abril de 2021.
    • Ponente invitado, “Book Symposium: Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play By Their Own Rules Book launch event”, Edinburgh Law School, 18 de marzo de 2021.
    • Coorganizador y ponente invitado, “Consultation regarding the UN Working Group’s 2021 Report to the UN General Assembly. Negotiating Human Rights-Compatible International Investment Agreements”, Naciones Unidas, Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, Universidad de Monterrey y Universidad Andrés Bello, 23-24 de febrero de 2021.
    • Ponente invitado, “Preparatory Session for UNCITRAL Working Group III, 39th Session”, Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, German Cooperation, 6 de agosto de 2020.
    • Ponente invitado, “Vulnerability in the Trade and Investment Regimes in the Age of COVID-19”, AfronomicsLaw y Loyola University Webinar, 22 de junio de 2020.
    • Ponente invitado, “The embeddedness of foreign investor rights”, Edinburgh Law School, 12 de noviembre de 2019.
    • Ponente, “Memo for Times of Precarity: beyond neo-nationalism and more of the same globalisation”, IEL Collective Inaugural Conference, Warwick Law School, 6-7 de noviembre de 2019.
    • Ponente invitado, “Let investors unite! Thinking audaciously about the rights of foreign investors (1949-1973)”, Centre for the Law, Regulation & Governance of the Global Economy, Warwick Law School, 31 de octubre de 2019.
    • Ponente invitado, “Workshop on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform in Latin America”, Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas, Georgetown University Law Center, 16 de septiembre de 2019.
    • Ponente invitado, “13th Annual Columbia International Investment Conference: Rethinking International Investment Governance: Principles for the 21st Century”, Columbia Law School, 27-28 de septiembre de 2018.
    • Ponente, “Making Local Communities Visible: A way to prevent the potentially tragic consequences of foreign investment?”, Rethinking International Economic Law Workshop, Harvard Law School, 13-14 de abril de 2018.
    • Ponente invitado, “Trade, Borders & the Prospects for International Economic Justice”, King’s College London Transnational Law Summit, 10-13 de abril de 2018.
    • Experto invitado, “Expert meeting: Harnessing investment for sustainable development: Inclusion of investor obligations and corporate accountability provisions in trade and investment agreements”, Versoix, International Institute on Sustainable Development and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 11-12 de enero de 2018.
    • Ponente y coorganizador, “The Role of a Future Binding Instrument on TNCs and OBEs with Respect to Human Rights in Providing Inclusive Remedies in Investmentrelated Disputes”, Tercera sesión del OEIGWG sobre Empresas Transnacionales y Derechos Humanos, Ginebra, 24 de octubre de 2017.
    • Ponente invitado, “UNCTAD World Investment Reports 1991-2005: 25 years of narratives justifying and balancing foreign investor rights”, UCL, Workshop series on Investment Law and Policy, 12 de enero de 2017.
    • Ponente invitado, “The Emerging Global Right to Investment: Understanding the reasoning behind investment awards”, Seminario doctoral, Sciences Po Law School, 7 de abril de 2016.
    • Ponente invitado, “Potential collaboration between Academia and an Observatory of MNCs”, presentación ante la Comisión Ecuatoriana para la Creación de la Nueva Arquitectura Financiera Regional, en el contexto de la propuesta para crear un Observatorio de Empresas Multinacionales, 16 de noviembre de 2015.
    • Ponente, “Understanding foreign investor rights in the International Investment Regime”, ponencia presentada en el Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, European University Institute, 22-24 de junio de 2015.
    • Ponente, “The International Investment Regime: A new arena for the struggle between foreign investors and local populations”, Law and Human Rights in the Global South Workshop, University of British Columbia, 8-10 de junio de 2015.

    CURSOS IMPARTIDOS / COURSE LISTINGS

    HISTORIAL LABORAL EN EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR / EMPLOYMENT HISTORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

    • Profesor Titular de Derecho Económico, Universidad de Valparaíso (marzo 2022-actualidad)
    • Profesor Asociado de Investigación, Universidad Andrés Bello Chile (septiembre 2019-febrero 2022).
    • Profesor Asistente de Derecho Internacional, Durham Law School (septiembre 2016-agosto 2019).
    • Profesor Asistente de Derecho Económico Internacional, Universidad Externado de Colombia (febrero 2014-julio 2016).

    PUESTOS DE VISITANTE / VISITING POSITIONS

    • Profesor Afiliado (2022-), Center for the Rule of Law in the Americas, Georgetown.
    • Profesor Visitante (2025), School of Law, University of Turin.
    • Profesor Visitante (2023-2025), School of Law, Pompeu Fabra University.
    • Profesor Visitante (2023), James E. Rogers Law School, University of Arizona.
    • Profesor Visitante (2018), Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina).
    • Profesor Visitante (2017), International University College of Turin (Italia).
    • Profesor Visitante (2017), Universidad Externado de Colombia.
    • Miembro de la Facultad (2014-2016), Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School.
    • Profesor Visitante (febrero-mayo 2016), Università del Piemonte Orientale (Italia).
    • Investigador Visitante – Beca Juan Celaya (junio 2015), International Institute for the Sociology of Law (España).
    • Profesor Invitado (verano 2010), Xi’an Jiaotong Law School (República Popular China).