ABSTRACT
Investment climate discourse, like other liberal economic perspectives, tends to applaud law when it operates as an ‘individual or private resource for channelling power’ (Cotterrell, 2002a, p. 643), and to be sceptical of law when it impedes business. Our intrepid investor, armed with the results of the latest Doing Business and Enterprise Surveys for orientation, picks his (yes) way gingerly through a tangle of gnarled legislation and dodges the snapping regulators who launch themselves at his every limb. Finally, in the half-light, we catch sight of him heroically heaving himself out of a judicial quagmire. Ah, the investor’s burden!
