Resources
Transparency, Accountability, and Influence in International Investment Law System
Jason W. Yackeee, University of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1770, April 2023
National Governance and Investment Treaties: Between Constraint and Empowerment
Josef Ostřanský and Facundo Pérez Aznar, Cambridge University Press, April 2023
Making the World Safe for Investment: The Protection of Foreign Property 1922–1959
Andrea Leiter, Cambridge University Press, February 2023
Manifestations of Coherence and Investor–State Arbitration
Charalampos Giannakolpoulos, Cambridge University Press, December 2022
State Capitalism and International Investment Law
Panagiotis Delimatsis, Georgios Dimitropoulos, & Anastasios Gourgourinis (Eds.), Hart Publishing, January 2023
International Investment Law and Climate Justice: The Search for a Just Green Investment Order
Olabisi D. Akinkugbe & Adebayo Majekolagbe, Fordham International law Journal, 46(2), 169–212, Jan. 2023
Investment Treaties and the Rule of Law Promise: An Examination of the Internalisation of International Commitments in Asia
Jansen Calamita and Ayelet Berman (eds), Cambridge University Press, September 2022
The Political Economy of Investment Arbitration
Zoe Phillips Williams, Oxford University Press, September 2022
The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa
Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja, Oxford University Press, August 2022
The Politics of Investment Treaties in Latin America
Julia Calvert, Oxford University Press, August 2022
Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform: New Treaties, Old Outcomes
Wolfgang Alschner, Oxford University Press, August 2022
International Advisory Proceedings on Climate Change
Benoit Mayer, Michigan Journal of International Law, 44(1), 41–115, 2023
Rethinking International Investment Law: Form, Function & Reform
Stratos Pahis, Virginia Journal of International Law, 63(3), 447–96, 2023
A Climate Change Carve-Out for Investment Treaties
Joshua Paine & Elizabeth Sheargold, Journal of International Economic Law, 26(2), 285–304, June 2023
OECD Investment Treaties and Climate Change – Public Consultations – Compilation of Submissions
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, April 2022
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
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
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.
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)
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)
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
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