Investment arbitrators rely on sovereignty for their legal status just as investor-state disputes
usually stem from disagreements about the role of the state in society. As a result …

This Article argues that investment treaties subtly constrain how nations organize their
internal systems of private law, including laws of property, contracts, corporations, and …

Challenging the classic narrative that sovereign states make the law that constrains them,
this book argues that treaties and other sources of international law form only the starting …

This insightful and accessible introduction provides students and practitioners with a
comprehensive overview of the increasingly important discipline of international investment …

While international investment law is one of the most dynamic and thriving fields of
international law, it is increasingly criticized for failing to strike a fair balance between private …

Substantive Protection under Investment Treaties provides the first systematic analysis of the
consequences of the substantive protections that investment treaties provide to foreign …

International investment law is in transition. Whereas the prevailing mindset has always
been the protection of the economic interests of individual investors, new developments in …

Proportionality analysis describes a particular legal technique of resolving conflicts between
human or constitutional rights and public interests through a process of balancing. As a …

When does a state measure become subject to compensation as an indirect expropriation
under international law? The author examines claims of indirect takings from such fora as …

International investment law is one of the most dynamic fields of international law, and yet it
has been criticised for failing to strike a fair balance between private and public interests. In …