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Here is the introductory volume to Kluwer's NAFTA Chapter Eleven Reports, an ongoing, comprehensive, and regularly augmented collection of full-text awards and other important decisions issued under the Agreements investor-state arbitration provisions. The texts in the series are supplemented with expert synopses that offer a unique guide to emerging jurisprudence in the field. This initial volume collects and thoroughly indexes selected primary documents essential to a full understanding of the adjudications contained in subsequent volumes. It is designed to be a convenient, stand-alone reference valuable in connection with investor-state arbitrations of all kinds. Among the documents compiled are treaties, arbitration rules, and other legal texts relied upon by arbitrators and parties. The work orders the documents in a logical, user-friendly manner, and includes a detailed index and a full bibliography. The editors of this and subsequent volumes are recognized academics who regularly consult and publish on the investor-state arbitration field. This volume is sure to take is place among the most essential resources not only of NAFTA specialists, but of all practitioners and academics in the field of investor-state arbitration.