International investment law provides a means for states to mitigate political risks that foreign
investors face inside their borders. Its status quo includes thousands of international …

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Deservingness, Scarcity, and DisabilityRights Doron Dorfman* People encounter disabilit in …

A number of issues are being debated as to whether multilateral investment court system
and its specific design features are desirable. This chapter presents the law and economics …

The reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is a subject of ongoing debate in
international institutions, yet an ASEAN perspective on the subject has been largely absent …

Purpose The dominant narrative in the investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) system is
that it enables powerful corporations to encroach upon the regulatory power of developing …

This timely Handbook contains a wide-ranging overview of the diverse research methods
used within international law. Providing an insightful examination of how international legal …

This article summarizes insights from political science and empirical legal scholarship
concerning selection and appointment of adjudicators to permanent international courts …

Investment treaties grant foreign investors legal rights to compensation for losses caused by
certain host state conduct. Many states are reconsidering their involvement in these treaties …

This is a major work investigating China's bilateral investment treaties (BITs) regime through
various approaches including textual analysis, case study, comparative study and empirical …

The Cochabamba Water War is a vivid tale of globalization and its discontents. The story
begins in Bolivia's third largest city, Cochabamba, with a privatization of water utilities in …