Resources – Investment Treaty News

Resources – ITN September 2023

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Rethinking National Investment Laws: A Study of Past and Present Laws to Inform Future Policy-Making

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Review of 2021 Investor–State Arbitration Decisions: Insights for IIA Reform

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, IIA Issues Note No. 1 (2023) Available here

Trends in the Investment Treaty Regime and a Reform Toolbox for the Energy Transition

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, IIA Issues Note No. 2 (2023) Available here

“These Are My Principles. If You Don’t Like Them I Have Others.” On Justifications of Foreign Investment Protection Under International Law

Fuad Zarbiyev, Journal of International Economic Law (2023) Available here

The Fragmentation of International Investment and Tax Dispute Settlement: A Good Idea?

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Fair and Equitable Treatment and the Rule of Law

Velimir Živković, Edward Elgar (2023) More information here

Dispute Settlement and the Reform of International Investment Law

Chen Yu, Edward Elgar (2023) More information here

European Union and International Investment Law Reform: Between Aspirations and Reality

Ivana Damjanovic, Cambridge University Press (July 2023) More information here

What Are Amicus Interventions for? Some Provocations on Non-Disputing Party Submissions in International Investment Arbitration

Niccolò Ridi, Questions of International Law, July 2023 More information here

“Cross Treaty Interpretation” en bloc or How CAFTA-DR Tribunals Are Systematically Interpreting the FET Standard Based on NAFTA Case Law

Patrick Dumberry, The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, 22(2), Jul. 2023 Available here

Unjust Enrichment in Investor–State Arbitration: A Principled Limit on Compensation for Future Income From Fossil Fuels

Olivers Hailes, Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, 32(2), 358–370, Jul 2023 Available here

Foreign Investors of the World, Unite! The International Association for the Promotion and Protection of Private Foreign Investments (APPI) 1958–1968

Filip Batselé, European Journal of International Law, 34(2) 415–447, May 2023 Available here

Inward Foreign Investment Screening Targets China: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Phillip McCalman, Laura Puzzello, Tania Voon, and Andrew Walter, Cambridge International Law Journal, 12(1), 82–104, Jun 2023 Available here

Resources – ITN June 2023

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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

Investment Law’s Alibis: Colonialism, Imperialism, Debt and Development

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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

Overview of Contract Interpretation in Investment Treaty Arbitration

Yuliya Chernykh, International Litigation in Practice, 12, pps. 17–70. January 2022

Investment Treaties and the Rule of Law in Singapore

Dafina Atanasova, Investment Treaties and the Rule of Law Promise: The Asian Experience, N. Jansen Calamita and Ayelet Berman (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2022

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

Protecting Concessionary Rights: General principles and the making of international investment law

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Prof. Tania Voon on Investment Screening

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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.

Advocates Say ISDS Is Necessary Because Domestic Courts Are “Inadequate,” But Claims and Decisions Don’t Reveal Systemic Failings

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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

Bringing Teeth to Mandatory Business and Human Rights Rules: A Conversation with Rachel Chambers and Anil Yilmaz Vastardis