Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of
global economic governance. Public interest in international investment arbitration is …

Modern investment treaties give private arbitrators power to determine whether governments
should pay compensation to foreign investors for a wide range of sovereign acts. In recent …

In the global backdrop of backlash against bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and the
investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), this paper critically studies India's new Model BIT …

Following the EU-India summit in May 2021, talks on both an EU-India trade and an
investment agreement have resumed. This analysis provides background on where EU …

The international investment agreement regime (IIA Regime) is composed of thousands of
IIAs and a system of investor–state dispute settlement. Historically, high-income developing …

India is one of the fastest growing economies and intends to achieve the desired growth with
the help of foreign investment. Recently, India terminated all the existing Bilateral Investment …

This chapter examines the growing body of treaty law which is designed to clarify areas of
ambiguity which have emerged in investor–state jurisprudence and, more particularly, to …

This paper provides a first-ever detailed study of NPM provisions in all stand-alone BITs
which are in force in South Asian countries. It studies 147 BITs of South Asian countries in …

The postworld war period envisaged the state as an active agent in promoting capitalist
development across many developing countries with a set of manoeuvrable autonomous …

Sovereignty is an age-old concept that continues to occupy centerstage in international law
discourse. This article attempts to look at India's tryst with international investment law …