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
Anthea Roberts and Taylor St John, American Journal of International Law, 116(1), 96–149. Sept 2021
Freya Baetens, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 71(1), 139–182. January 2022
Jean Ho, The British Yearbook of International Law, January 2022
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Oxford University Press, forthcoming April 2022
ICSID, November 2021
International Economic Law and Policy Working Group (IELPWG) of Birmingham Law School. The event took place on Monday, November 15, 2021.
J.I. Hernández G., Transnational Dispute Management, October 2021
UNCTAD, October 2021
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
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
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)
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.
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)
We Need to Rethink Investment Treaties to Ensure a Rapid and Just Energy Transition
By Tarald Laudal Berge and Axel Berger, Journal of International Dispute Settlement (March 2021)
A comprehensive analysis of international law from Global South perspectives with specific reference to Bangladesh.
Available here.
By Esme Shirlow, Cambridge University Press (February 2021)
The Atlas:
Includes African Arbitration Legislation (AAL)
A non-exhaustive Directory of African International Arbitrators (DAIA)
UNCTAD (October 2020) Available here
UNCTAD’s IIA Reform Accelerator – A New Tool to Facilitate Investment Treaty Reform Available here
UNCTAD/OECD Available here
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.
This survey and resulting report focus on investors’ views of ongoing ISDS reform processes and positions.
This article uses an experimental approach to better understand public criticism of investment arbitration.
This article examines the proportionality analysis carried about by arbitral tribunals when the protection of foreign investment comes into conflict with human rights protections.
This book examines the ways in which international trade and investment regimes can contribute to or complicate the pursuit of the SDGs.
This book examines the admissibility of shareholder claims under investment treaties and proposes specific admissibility criteria.
By James Thuo Gathii and Olabisi D. Akinkugbe (Afronomics Law)
By Katrin Kuhlmann (Afronomics Law)
Jean Ho (Afronomics Law)
This is a special issue of the European Yearbook on International Economic Law.
This book examines the participation of Indigenous Peoples in international trade and investment and the development of law in these areas.
UNCTAD’s Investment Trends Monitor special issue on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on global value chains and FDI.
UNCTAD’s Investment Policy Monitor special issue on the investment policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.
This book outlines the common protection standards contained in international investment agreements and their application and interpretation by investment tribunals.