Complex Designers and Emergent Design: Reforming the Investment Treaty System
Anthea Roberts and Taylor St John, American Journal of International Law, 116(1), 96–149. Sept 2021
Resources
Overview of Contract Interpretation in Investment Treaty Arbitration
Yuliya Chernykh, International Litigation in Practice, 12, pps. 17–70. January 2022
Investment Treaties and the Rule of Law in Singapore
Dafina Atanasova, Investment Treaties and the Rule of Law Promise: The Asian Experience, N. Jansen Calamita and Ayelet Berman (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2022
Protecting Foreign Investment and Public Health Through Arbitral Balancing and Treaty Design
Freya Baetens, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 71(1), 139–182. January 2022
The Art of Contradiction in International Investment Law
Jean Ho, The British Yearbook of International Law, January 2022
Transforming World Trade and Investment Law for Sustainable Development
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Oxford University Press, forthcoming April 2022
Protecting Concessionary Rights: General principles and the making of international investment law
Andrea Leiter, Leiden Journal of International Law, November 2021
Prof. Tania Voon on Investment Screening
TAPP Network
Proposals for the Amendment of ICSID Rules
ICSID, November 2021
Webinar: Origin and Evolution of Investment Treaty Standards: Progress or regression?
International Economic Law and Policy Working Group (IELPWG) of Birmingham Law School. The event took place on Monday, November 15, 2021.
Advocates Say ISDS Is Necessary Because Domestic Courts Are “Inadequate,” But Claims and Decisions Don’t Reveal Systemic Failings
Maria Rocha, Martin Dietrich Brauch, and Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye (CCSI)
Investment Law and Post-Pandemic in Latin America: Towards a new approach to the non-intervention principle
J.I. Hernández G., Transnational Dispute Management, October 2021
Investment Trends Monitor
UNCTAD, October 2021
Investors’ International Law
Investors’ International Law
Edited by Jean Ho and Mavluda Sattorova, Hart Publishing (2021)
UNCTAD Report on new IIAs and IIA reform processes in 2020–2021
UNCTAD Report on new IIAs and IIA reform processes in 2020–2021
Bringing Teeth to Mandatory Business and Human Rights Rules: A Conversation with Rachel Chambers and Anil Yilmaz Vastardis
Bringing Teeth to Mandatory Business and Human Rights Rules: A Conversation with Rachel Chambers and Anil Yilmaz Vastardis
Promoting Japanese Private Investments in Africa: A Clash of Interests
Promoting Japanese Private Investments in Africa: A Clash of Interests
High-Income Developing Countries, FDI Outflows and the International Investment Agreement Regime
High-Income Developing Countries, FDI Outflows and the International Investment Agreement Regime
Yoram Z. Haftel, Soo Yeon Kim, and Lotem Bassan-Nygate, World Trade Review (August 2021)
Using Investor–State Disputes Settlement to Enforce International Environmental Commitments
Using Investor–State Disputes Settlement to Enforce International Environmental Commitments
Andie Altchiler, Pace Law Review (August 2021)
International Obligations Governing the Activities of Export Credit Agencies in Connection With the Continued Financing of Fossil Fuel-Related Projects and Activities
This legal opinion, commissioned by Oil Change International, lays out the responsibilities of export credit agencies and governments regarding the financing of fossil fuel projects.
The Function of Equity in International Law
Draws on investment arbitration to make a normative argument about the role of equity in international law.
UNCTAD’s SDG Investment Trends Monitor (April 2021)
UNCTAD’s SDG Investment Trends Monitor (April 2021)
We Need to Rethink Investment Treaties to Ensure a Rapid and Just Energy Transition
We Need to Rethink Investment Treaties to Ensure a Rapid and Just Energy Transition
Do Investor-State Dispute Settlement Cases Influence Domestic Environmental Regulation? The Role of Respondent State Bureaucratic Capacity
By Tarald Laudal Berge and Axel Berger, Journal of International Dispute Settlement (March 2021)
Call for Papers: “The Future of Investment Law in Latin America” (Transnational Dispute Management)
Full papers due March 31, 2021
Bangladesh and International Law
A comprehensive analysis of international law from Global South perspectives with specific reference to Bangladesh.
UNCTAD’s Investment Policy Monitor (February 2021)
Available here.
Judging at the Interface. Deference to State Decision-Making Authority in International Adjudication
By Esme Shirlow, Cambridge University Press (February 2021)
African Arbitration Atlas
The Atlas:
Includes African Arbitration Legislation (AAL)
A non-exhaustive Directory of African International Arbitrators (DAIA)
Investment Trends Monitor
UNCTAD (October 2020) Available here
Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Investment Promotion
Investment promotion agencies are increasingly integrating gender concerns into their work.
UNCTAD’s IIA Reform Accelerator – A New Tool to Facilitate Investment Treaty Reform
UNCTAD’s IIA Reform Accelerator – A New Tool to Facilitate Investment Treaty Reform Available here
Twenty-Fourth Report on G20 Investment Measures
UNCTAD/OECD Available here
Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination. How Foreign Investors Play by Their Own Rules
This book explores the role of private sector actors (business leaders, bankers, and international lawyers) in the development of international investment law. It also takes a new look at influential awards, including those related to conflicts involving local communities.
2020 International Arbitration Survey: Investor–State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)
This survey and resulting report focus on investors’ views of ongoing ISDS reform processes and positions.
What Is Wrong with Investment Arbitration? Evidence From a Set of Behavioural Experiments
This article uses an experimental approach to better understand public criticism of investment arbitration.
Proportionality and Human Rights Protection in International Investment Arbitration: What’s Left Hanging in the Balance?
This article examines the proportionality analysis carried about by arbitral tribunals when the protection of foreign investment comes into conflict with human rights protections.
International Trade, Investment, and the Sustainable Development Goals
This book examines the ways in which international trade and investment regimes can contribute to or complicate the pursuit of the SDGs.
Admissibility of Shareholder Claims Under Investment Treaties
This book examines the admissibility of shareholder claims under investment treaties and proposes specific admissibility criteria.
Symposium Introduction: Centering voices from the global south on investor-state dispute settlement reform: A debate
By James Thuo Gathii and Olabisi D. Akinkugbe (Afronomics Law)
Flexibility and Innovation in International Economic Law: Enhancing rule of law, inclusivity, and resilience in the time of COVID-19
By Katrin Kuhlmann (Afronomics Law)
Hegemony 101 in International Investment Law
Jean Ho (Afronomics Law)
International Investment and Competition Law
This is a special issue of the European Yearbook on International Economic Law.
Indigenous Peoples and International Trade: Building equitable and inclusive international trade and investment agreements
This book examines the participation of Indigenous Peoples in international trade and investment and the development of law in these areas.
Investment Trends Monitor Special Issue (March 2020)
UNCTAD’s Investment Trends Monitor special issue on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on global value chains and FDI.
Investment Policy Monitor Special Issue (May 2020)
UNCTAD’s Investment Policy Monitor special issue on the investment policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.
International Protection of Investments: The substantive standards
This book outlines the common protection standards contained in international investment agreements and their application and interpretation by investment tribunals.