Investment Arbitration Reporter

By Prof. Andrew Newcombe and Cody Olson, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
  
Books

Jose E. Alvarez et al., The Evolving International Investment Regime: Expectations, Realities, Options (Oxford University Press, April 2011).
  
J. E. Alvarez, The Public International Law Regime Governing International Investment (The Pocket Books of the Hague Academy of International Law) (Brill, July 2011).
  
Ivar Alvik, Contracting with Sovereignty: State Contracts and International Arbitration (Studies in International Law) (Hart Publishing, January 2012).
  
Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
  
Chester Brown & Devashish Krishan, Commentaries on Selected Model Investment Treaties (Oxford Commentaries on International Law) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming June 2012).
  
Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
  
Tony Cole, The Structure of Investment Arbitration (Routledge, forthcoming September 2012).
  
Graham Coop, ed., Energy Dispute Resolution: Investment Protection, Transit and the Energy Charter Treaty (JurisNet LLC, June 2011).
  
Karel Daele, Challenge and Disqualification of Arbitrators in International Arbitration (Kluwer Law International, December 2011).
  
Armand De Mestral & Céline Lévesque, eds, Improving International Investment Agreements (Routledge Research in International Economic Law) (Routledge, forthcoming April 2012).
  
Yves Derains & Laurent Levy, eds, Is Arbitration Only As Good as the Arbitrator? Status, Powers and Role of the Arbitrator (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2011).
  
Olivier De Schutter, Johan F. Swinnen & Jan Wouters, eds, Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development: Improving International Investment Law (Routledge, forthcoming July 2012).
  
Angelos Dimopoulos, EU Foreign Investment Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming February 2012).
  
Oliver Dörr & Kirsten Schmalenbach, eds, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: A Commentary (Springer, forthcoming January 2012).
  
Christopher Dugan et al., Investor-State Arbitration (Oxford University Press, October 2011).
  
Amin George Forji, Bilateral Investment Treaties as Instruments of Economic Hegemony (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, May 2011).
  
Bernard Hanotiau & Eric A. Schwartz, eds, Dossier VII - Multiparty Arbitration (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2010).
  
Matthew Happold, James Dingemans QC & Thomas Roe, Settlement of Investment Disputes under the Energy Charter Treaty (Cambridge University Press, May 2011).
  
Kaj Hober, International Commercial Arbitration in Sweden (Oxford University Press, May 2011).
 
Rainer Hoffman & Christian Tams, eds, International Investment Law and General International Law: From Clinical Isolation to Systemic Integration (Nomos, June 2011).
  
Roland Kläger, Fair and Equitable Treatment' in International Investment Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law) (Cambridge University Press, August 2011).
  
Martín Molinuevo, Protecting Investment in Services. Investor State Arbitration versus WTO Dispute Settlement (Kluwer Law International, December 2011).
  
Santiago Montt, State Liability in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Global Constitutional and Administrative Law in the BIT Generation (Studies in International Law) (Hart Publishing, December 2011).
  
Junji Nakagawa, Transparency in International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement (Routledge, forthcoming July 2012).
  
Valentine Nde Fru, The International Law on Foreign Investments and Host Economies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cameroon, Nigeria, and Kenya (Juristische Schriftenreihe) (Lit Verlag, September 2011).
  
Jamal S A Nusseibeh, International economic dispute settlement: Morality and authority in investment arbitration and at the World Trade Organization (ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing, September 2011).
  
Martins Paparinskis, Basic Documents on International Investment Protection (Documents in International Law) (Hart Publishing, forthcoming, April 2012).
  
Martins Paparinskis, The International Minimum Standard and Fair and Equitable Treatment (Oxford Monographs in International Law) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming January  2012).
  
Borzu Sabahi, Compensation and Restitution in Investor-State Arbitration
Principles and Practice (Oxford University Press, September 2011).
  
Jan Peter Sasse, An Economic Analysis of Bilateral Investment Treaties (Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts) (Gabler, July 2011).
  
Karl P. Sauvant, Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2010-2011 (Oxford University Press, January 2012).
  
Luca Schicho, State Entities in International Investment Law (Studien zum Internationalen Investitionsrecht) (Nomos Publishers, forthcoming January 2012).
  
Wenhua Shan, ed., The Legal Protection of Foreign Investment: A Comparative Study (Hart Publishing, forthcoming April 2012).
  
Andrea M. Steingruber, Consent in International Arbitration (Oxford University Press, forthcoming May 2012).
  
Valentina Vadi, Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Routledge Research in International Economic Law) (Routledge, forthcoming May 2012).
 
Albert Jan Van Den Berg, ed., Arbitration Advocacy in Changing Times (Kluwer Law International, October 2011).
 
J Romesh Weeramantry, Treaty Interpretation in Investment Arbitration (Oxford International Arbitration Series) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming May 2012).
 
Todd Weiler & Ian A. Laird, eds, Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law (JurisNet LLC, forthcoming May 2012).
 
Reinmar Wolff, ed., The New York Convention: A Commentary (Hart Publishing, forthcoming March 2012).
 
Nkenglefac Yochembeng, Settling International Investment Disputes Through Arbitration: The Klockner Case before the ICSID Tribunal (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, January 2011).
  
Book Chapters
  
Diane Alferez Desierto, "Investment Treaty Regulation Under the New ASEAN Charter Regime" in Sustaining Asia's Growth and Investment in a Changing World (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2012), online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Vivienne Bath, "The Quandary for Chinese Regulators: Controlling the Flow of Investment into and out of China" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, "Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia: An Overview" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Sir Franklin Berman QC, "Evolution or revolution?" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Andrea Bjorklund, "The participation of sub-national government units as amici curiae in international investment disputes" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Jonathan Bonnitcha, "Outline of a normative framework for evaluating interpretations of investment treaty protections" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Tomer Broude, "Investment and Trade: The 'Lottie and Lisa' of International Economic Law?" in Pierre Sauvé & Roberto Echandi, eds, New Directions and Emerging Challenges in International Investment Law and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2012). 
 
Chester Brown & Kate Miles, "Introduction: Evolution in investment treaty law and arbitration" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Markus Burgstaller, "Sovereign wealth funds and international investment law" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Simon Butt, "Foreign Investment in Indonesia: The Problem of Legal Uncertainty" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Paul James Cardwell & Duncan French, "The European Union as a global investment partner: law, policy and rhetoric in the attainment of development assistance and market liberalization" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Govert Coppens, "Treaty Definitions of Investment and the Role of Economic Development: A Critical Analysis of the Malaysian Historical Salvors Cases" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Antony Crockett, "Stabilisation clauses and sustainable development: Drafting for the future" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Hop Dang, "Legal Issues in Vietnam's FDI Law: Protections under Domestic Law, Bilateral Investment Treaties and Sovereign Guarantees" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Antonias Dimolitsa, "The Arbitrator and The Litigants (Some Exceptional Clashes)" in Yves Derains & Laurent Levy, eds, Is Arbitration Only As Good as the Arbitrator? Status, Powers and Role of the Arbitrator (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2011).
 
Patrick Dumberry & Erik Labelle-Eastaugh, "Non-State Actors in International Investment Law: The Legal Personality of Corporations and NGOs in the Context of Investor-State Arbitration" in Jean D'Aspremont, ed., Participants in the International Legal System: Multiple Perspectives on Non-State Actors in International Law (Routledge-Cavendish, 2011).
 
Nils Eliasson, "China's Investment Treaties: A Procedural Perspective" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Salim Farrar, "Foreign Investment Laws and the Role of FDI in Malaysia's New Economic Model" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Nick Gallus, "The fair and equitable treatment standard and the circumstances of the host State" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Omar García-Bolívar, "Economic development at the core of the international investment regime" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Shotaro Hamamoto, "A Passive Player in International Investment Law: Typically Japanese?" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Daniel Kalderimis, "Investment treaty arbitration as global administrative law: What this might mean in practice" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Avidan Kent & Alexandra Harrington, "The plea of necessity under customary international law: A critical review in light of the Argentine cases" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Joongi Kim, "The Evolution of Korea's Investment Treaties and Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Kevin K. Kim, "Arbitrators and Choice-of-law Decisions" in Yves Derains & Laurent Levy, eds, Is Arbitration Only As Good as the Arbitrator? Status, Powers and Role of the Arbitrator (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2011).
 
Christina Knahr, "The new rules on participation of non-disputing parties in ICSID arbitration: Blessing or curse?" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Judith Levine, "Navigating the parallel universe of investor-State arbitrations under the UNCITRAL rules" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Julian D.M. Lew, "The Arbitrator and Confidentiality" in Yves Derains & Laurent Levy, eds, Is Arbitration Only As Good as the Arbitrator? Status, Powers and Role of the Arbitrator (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2011).
 
Sam Luttrell, "Bias challenges in investor-state arbitration: Lessons from international commercial arbitration" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Pierre Mayer, "The Laws or Rules of Law Applicable to the Merits of a Dispute and the Freedom of the Arbitrator" in Yves Derains & Laurent Levy, eds, Is Arbitration Only As Good as the Arbitrator? Status, Powers and Role of the Arbitrator (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2011).
 
Alex Mills, "The public-private dualities of international investment law and arbitration" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Alexis Mourre, "Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? On Jurisdiction Upon Arbitrators" in Yves Derains & Laurent Levy, eds, Is Arbitration Only As Good as the Arbitrator? Status, Powers and Role of the Arbitrator (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2011).
 
Andrew Newcombe, "Investor misconduct: jurisdiction, admissibility, or merits?" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Luke Nottage & J. Romesh Weeramantry, "Investment Arbitration in Asia: Five Perspectives on Law and Practice" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
José Emilio Nunes Pinto, "‘Ceci n'est pas un Article'" in Yves Derains & Laurent Levy, eds, Is Arbitration Only As Good as the Arbitrator? Status, Powers and Role of the Arbitrator (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2011).
 
Martins Paparinskis, "Investment treaty interpretation and customary investment law: Preliminary remarks" in  Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
William W. Park, "The Four Musketeers of Arbitral Duty: Neither One-for-all Nor All-for-one" in Yves Derains & Laurent Levy, eds, Is Arbitration Only As Good as the Arbitrator? Status, Powers and Role of the Arbitrator (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2011).
 
Sergio Puig, "The role of procedure in the development of substantive law: The case of Section B of Chapter 11 of NAFTA" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Prabhash Ranjan, "The ‘Object and Purpose' of Indian Investment Agreements: Failing to Balance Investment Protection and Regulatory Power" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, "Protecting intellectual property rights under BITs, FTAs, and TRIPS: Conflicting regimes or mutual coherence?" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Philippe Sands QC, "Conflict and conflicts in investment treaty arbitration: Ethical standards for counsel" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Sita Sitaresmi, "The Japan-Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement: An Energy Security Perspective" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, "Evolution or revolution in international investment arbitration? The descent into normlessness" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, "Review of Asian Views on Foreign Investment Law" in Vivienne Bath & Luke Nottage, eds., Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, November 2011).
 
Suzanne Spears, "Making way for the public interest in international investment agreements" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Andrew Stephenson, Lee Carroll & Jonathon DeBoos, "Interference by a local court and failure to enforce: Actionable under a bilateral investment treaty?" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Anastasia Telesetsky, "A New Investment Deal in Asia and Africa: Land Leases to Foreign Investors" in Chester Brown and Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011), online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Kyla Tienhaara, "Regulatory chill and the threat of arbitration: A view from political science" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Mehmet Toral & Thomas Schultz, "The State, a Perpetual Respondent in Investment Arbitration? Some Unorthodox Considerations" in Michael Waibel, Asha Kaushal, Kyo-Hwa Chung & Claire Balchin, eds, The Backlash Against Investment Arbitration (Kluwer Law International, 2010), online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Emma Truswell, "Thirst for profit: water privatisation, investment law and a human right to water" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
V.V. Veeder, "Arbitral Discrimination under English and EU Law" in Yves Derains & Laurent Levy, eds, Is Arbitration Only As Good as the Arbitrator? Status, Powers and Role of the Arbitrator (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2011).
 
Michael Waibel, "International Investment Law and Treaty Interpretation" in Rainer Hofmann & C. Christian Tams, eds., From Clinical Isolation to Systemic Integration (Baden-Baden, 2011).
 
J. Romesh Weeramantry & Claire Wilson, "The scope of ‘amount of compensation' dispute resolution clauses in investment treaties" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
David Williams QC & Simon Foote, "Recent developments in the approach to identifying an ‘investment' pursuant to Article 25 of the ICSID Convention" in Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds, Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
 
Book Reviews
 
Santiago Alvarez González, "Book Review: Liber amicorum Bernardo Cremades ed. by M.A. Fernández Ballesteros & D. Arias" (2011) 27:2 Arbitration Int'l 267.
 
Efraim Chalamish, "Do Treaties Matter? On Effectiveness and International Economic Law (Book Review: The Effect of Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment, ed. by Lisa Sachs & Karl Sauvant)" (2011) 32 Mich. J. Int'l L. 325.
 
Andreas Kulick, "Book Review: International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law, ed. by Stephan W. Schill" (August 2011) 22 Eur. J. Int'l L. 917.
 
Fernando Losada Fraga, "Book Review: The Constitutional Protection of Capitalism by
Danny Nicol" (2011) 22 Eur. J. Int'l L, 280, online: (2011) Oxford Journals (Click here for online version).
 
Marion Panizzon, "Book Review: Legal Principles in WTO Disputes by Andrew D. Mitchell" (January 2011) 105:1 Am. J. Int'l L. 181, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Riccardo Sciaudone, "Book Review: Energy Dispute Resolution: Investment Protection, Transit and the Energy Charter Treaty, ed. by Graham Coop" (November 2011) 29:4 J. Energy & Nat. Resources L. 508.
 
Valentina S. Vadi, "Book Review: State Liability in Investment Treaty Arbitration - Global Constitutional and Administrative Law in the BIT Generation, by Santiago Montt" (September 2011) 14 J. Int'l Econ. L. 715.
 
Reports
  
Sarah Anderson et al, "Mining for Profits in International Tribunals", online: (November 2011) Institute for Policy Studies (Click here for online version).
  
Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, "Gillard Government Trade Policy Statement: Trading our way to more jobs and prosperity", online: (April 2011) Australian DFAT (Click here for online version).
  
Susan D. Franck & Anna Joubin-Bret, eds., "Investor-State Disputes: Prevention and Alternatives to Arbitration II" (United Nations, 2011), online: (2011) UNCTAD (Click here for online version).
 
UNCTAD, "Investment for development: current policy challenges.  Note by the UNCTAD secretariat", Multi-year Expert Meeting on Investment for Development, Fourth Session, Geneva, 5-6 December 2011, online: (2011) UNCTAD (Click here for online version).
 
Articles
 
Diane Alferez Desierto, "Development as an International Right: Investment in the New Trade-Based IIAs" (2011) 3:2 Trade L. & Development, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Yulia Andreeva, "Interpreting Consent to Arbitration as a Unilateral Act of State: A Case Against Conventions" (2011) 27:2 Arbitration Int'l 129.
 
Claudia Annacker, "Protection and Admission of Sovereign Investment under Investment Treaties" (September, 2011) 10 Chinese J. Int'l L. 531.
 
Ardeshir Atai, "Arbitration of Investment Disputes under Iranian Investment Treaties" (2011) 14:2 J. Money Laundering Control 130, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Larry Cata Backer, "Sovereign Wealth Funds as Regulatory Chameleons: The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Funds and Public Global Governance through Private Global Investment" (2010) 41 Geo. J. Int'l L. 425.
 
Sascha-Dominik Oliver Vladimir Bachmann & Pini Pavel Miretski, "Global Business and Human Rights - The UN 'Norms on the Responsibility of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights' - A Requiem", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Vivienne Bath & Luke R. Nottage, "Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia: An Overview" Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 11/20, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Alexander J. Belohlavek, "Confidentiality and Publicity in Investment Arbitration, Public Interest and Scope of Powers Vested in Arbitral Tribunals" (2011) 2 Czech Y.B. Int'l L. 23, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Axel Berger et al., "More Stringent BITs, Less Ambiguous Effects on FDI? Not a Bit!" (2010) Kiel Working Paper No. 1621, online: (2010) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
S. Bhushan, "BIT Arbitration in India: Exploring Applicability of the 1996 Act and Enforcement of Resultant Arbitral Awards"  (November 2011) 4:2 Contemporary Asia Arbitration J. 273, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Sadie Blanchard, "State Consent, Temporal Jurisdiction, and the Importation of Continuing Circumstances Analysis into International Investment Arbitration" (2011) 10 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 419.
 
Gary B. Born, "A New Generation of International Adjudication" (2011) 61 Duke L. J., online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Anatole Boute, "Challenging the Re-Regulation of Liberalized Electricity Prices under Investment Arbitration" (2011) 32 Energy L.J. 497.
 
Anatole Boute, "Combating Climate Change through Investment Arbitration" (2011) 35 Fordham Int'l L. J., online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Charles H. Brower, II, "Corporations as Plaintiffs under International Law: Three Narratives about Investment Treaties" (2011) 9 Santa Clara J. Int'l L. 179.
 
Chester W. Brown, "Investment Arbitration as the ‘New Frontier'" (2009) 28:1 The Arbitrator and Mediator 59; Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 11/34, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Chester W. Brown & Sergio Puig, "The Power of ICSID Tribunals to Dismiss Proceedings Summarily: An Analysis of Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules" (2011) 10 L. & Practice of Int'l Courts & Tribunals; Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 11/33, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Katherine L. Brown, "Student article. A comparative analysis of the Chinese and Czech legal systems: which system is more favorable to and provides more stability for foreign direct investment?" (2011) 8 Loy. U. Chi. Int'l L. Rev. 205.
 
Tim Buthe & Helen V. Milner, "Institutional Diversity in Trade Agreements and Foreign Direct Investment: Credibility, Commitment, and Economic Flows in the Developing World, 1971-2007" APSA 2011 Annual Meetings Paper, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Micah Burch & Luke R. Nottage, "Novel Treaty-Based Approaches to Resolving International Investment and Tax Disputes in the Asia-Pacific Region" Australian Int'l L. J. (forthcoming); Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 11/66, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Tim Buthe & Helen V. Milner, "Institutional Diversity in Trade Agreements and Foreign Direct Investment: Credibility, Commitment, and Economic Flows in the Developing World, 1971-2007" APSA 2011 Annual Meetings Paper, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Julien Cantegreil, "The audacity of the Texaco/Calasiatic award: Rene-Jean Dupuy and the internationalization of foreign investment law" (2011) 22 Eur. J. Int'l L. 441.
 
Tai-Heng Cheng, "Developing Narratives in International Investment Law" (2011) 9 Santa Clara J. Int'l L. 215.
 
Barnali Choudhury, "Exception provisions as a gateway to incorporating human rights issues into international investment agreements" (2011) 49 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 670.
 
Jenny Clift, "Developing an international regime for transnational corporations: the importance of insolvency law to sustainable recovery and development" (April 2011) 20:1 Transnational Corporations 117, online: (2011) UNCTAD (Click here for online version).
 
Tony Cole, "The Boundaries of Most Favored Nation Treatment in International Investment Law" Mich. J. Int'l L. (forthcoming), online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
David Collins, "Sustainable International Investment Law After the Pax Americana: The BOOT on the Other Foot", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Karen Halverson Cross, "Rawls' Original Position and the Evolution of BIT Practice", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Rimantas Daujotas, "Jurisdiction Ratione Personae and Corporate Nationality in International Investment Arbitration - Legitimate Corporate Planning or Abuse of Right?", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Eric De Brabandere, "NGOs and the ‘public interest': the legality and rationale of amicus curiae interventions in international economic and investment disputes" (2011) 12 Chi. J. Int'l L. 85.
 
Richard Deutsch, "An ICSID Tribunal denies jurisdiction for failure to satisfy BIT's ‘cooling-off' period: further evidence of a sea change in investor-state arbitration or a meaningless ripple?" (2011) 33 Hous. J. Int'l L. 589.
 
Ajay S. Dhawle, "Foreign Institutional Investment - A Need of Time", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Sanja Djajic, "Contractual claims in treaty-based arbitration - with or without umbrella and forum selection clauses" (2011) 14:5 Int'l Arbitration L. Rev. 173.
 
Joshua Fellenbaum, "GEA v. Ukraine and the Battle of Treaty Interpretation Principles Over the Salini Test" (2011) 27:2 Arbitration Int'l 249.
 
Jose Augusto Fontoura Costa, "Comparing WTO Panelists and ICSID Arbitrators: The Creation of International Legal Fields" (2011) 1:4 Oñati Socio-Legal Series, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
George K. Foster, "Striking a Balance between Investor Protections and National Sovereignty: The Relevance of Local Remedies in Investment Treaty Arbitration" (2011) 49:2 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 201; Lewis & Clark Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-15, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Susan D. Franck, "The ICSID Effect? Considering Potential Variations in Arbitration Awards" (2011) 51:4 Va. J. Int'l L.; Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2011-9, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Andrew Friedman, "Flexible Arbitration for the Developing World: Piero Foresti and the Future of Bilateral Investment Treaties in the Global South" (2011) 7:37 Brigham Young Int'l L. & Mgmt Rev., online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Andrew Friedman, "Friends of the Panel: The Evolution of Amicus Participation in International Investment Arbitration", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Elliot Friedman, "Enforcement of International Arbitration Awards in New York: If You Take Them There, You Can Collect from Anywhere" (2011) 27:4 Arbitration Int'l 575.
 
James D. Fry, "Regularity Through Reason: A Foundation of Virtue for International Arbitration" (May 2011) 4:1 Contemporary Asia Arbitration J. 57; University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2011/022, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Simon Gabriel, "Dealing With ‘Challenged Documents'" (2011) 29:4 ASA Bulletin 823.
 
David A. Gantz, "Resolution of Investor-State Controversies in Developing Countries" Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 11-29, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Ahmad Ali Ghouri, "Positing for Balancing: Investment Treaty Rights and the Rights of Citizens" (May 2011) 4:1 Contemporary Asia Arbitration J. 95, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Ahmad Ali Ghouri, "The Evolution of Bilateral Investment Treaties, Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Investment Law" (December 2011) 14:6 Int'l Arbitration L. Rev. 189, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Kathryn Gordon & Joachim Pohl, "Environmental Concerns in International Investment Agreements: A Survey", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Virginia A. Greiman, "The public/private conundrum in international investment disputes: advancing investor community partnerships" (2011) 32 Whittier L. Rev. 395.
 
Leonila Guglya, "International Review of Decisions Concerning Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Award: A Threat to the Sovereignty of the States or an Overestimated Hazard (so far)? (With Emphasis on the Developments within the International Investment Arbitration Setting)" (2011) Czech Y.B. Int'l L. 93., online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Sam Halabi, "Efficient Contracting Between Foreign Investors and Host States: Evidence from Stabilization Clauses" (2011) 31 Northwestern J. Int'l L. &  Bus. 261, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Laura Halonen, "Bridging the Gap in the Notion of ‘Investment' between ICSID and UNCITRAL Arbitrations: Note on an Award Rendered under the Bilateral Investment Treaty between Switzerland and Uzbekistan (Romak SA v Uzbekistan)" (2011) 29:2 ASA Bulletin 312.
 
Robin F. Hansen, "The Systemic Challenge of Corporate Investor Nationality in an Era of Multinational Business" (2010) 1:1 Revue d'arbitrage et de Médiation/J. Arbitration & Mediation 81, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Steffen Hindelang, "EU Primary Legislation and the Common Foreign Investment Policy - Permissibility of and Limits on Investor-State Arbitration on the Basis of Future EU Agreements" Walter Hallstein-Institut (WHI) Paper No. 01/11, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Antonius Rickson Hippolyte, "Examining Newfound Tolerance for International Arbitration in the Developing World: An Illustration of the Nexus between Law and Development", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Chi-Chung Kao, "Definition of Investors and Related Issues in Investment Treaty Arbitration Under the Proposed Taiwan-China Bilateral Investment Agreement" (November 2011) 4:2 Contemporary Asia Arbitration J. 179, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Dohyun Kim, "Note. The Annulment Committee's Role in Multiplying Inconsistency in ICSID Arbitration: The Need to Move Away from an Annulment-Based System" (2011) 86 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 242.
 
Jodie A. Kirshner, "Why is the U.S. Abdicating the Policing of Multinational Corporations to Europe?: Extraterritorialism, Sovereignty, and the Alien Tort Statute" (2012) 29:2 Berkeley J. Int'l L. (BJIL), online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Jan Kleinheisterkamp, "The Future of the BITs of European Member States after Lisbon" (2011) 29:1 ASA Bulletin 212.
 
Oleksiy Kononov, "International Investment Law: Is it Time to Change the Traditional BIT System?" (2011) Czech Y.B. Int'l L. 123, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Charles T. Kotuby, "‘Other international obligations' as the applicable law in investment arbitration" (2011) 14:5 Int'l Arbitration L. Rev. 162.
 
Markus Krajewski, "The Impact of International Investment Agreements on Energy Regulation" Eur. Y.B. Int'l Econ. L., 2013 (forthcoming), online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Houchi Kuo, "The Issue of Repeat Arbitrators: Is it a Problem and How Should the Arbitration Institutions Respond?" (November 2011) 4:2 Contemporary Asia Arbitration J. 247, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Tineke Lambooy, Mary Varner & Aikaterini Argyrou, "The Corporate Responsibility to Remedy (3rd Pillar Ruggie Framework) - Analysis of the Corporate Responses in Three Major Oil Spill Cases: Shell - Nigeria, BP - US (the Gulf), Chevron - Ecuador" University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2011-26, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Nikos Lavranos, "Member States' Bits: Lost in Transition?", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Amnon Lehavi & Amir N. Licht, "BITs and Pieces of Property" (2011) 36 Yale J. Int'l L. 115, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Jernej Letnar Cernic, "Corporate Obligations Under the Human Right to Water" (Spring 2011) 39:2 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 303, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Eugenia Levine, "Amicus Curiae in International Investment Arbitration: The Implications of an Increase in Third-Party Participation" (2011) 29 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 200.
 
Tissya Mandal, "FDI, BITS and the Marginalization of Labour Standards", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Lars A. Markert, "Improving Efficiency in Investment Arbitration" (November 2011) 4:2 Contemporary Asia Arbitration J. 215, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Marissa Marco, "Accountability in International Project Finance: The Equator Principles and the Creation of Third-Party-Beneficiary Status for Project-Affected Communities" (2011) 34 Fordham Int'l L.J. 452, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
li Z. Marossi, "Shifting the Burden of Proof in the Practice of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal" (2011) 28:5 J. Int'l Arbitration 427.
 
Bryan Christopher Mercurio, "The Untapped Potential of Investor-State Dispute Settlement Involving Intellectual Property Rights and Expropriation in Free Trade Agreements" Chinese University, CFRED Working Paper, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Alex Mills, "Antinomies of public and private at the foundations of international investment law and arbitration" (2011) 14 J. Int'l Econ. L. 469.
 
Andrew D. Mitchell and Sebastian M. Wurzberger, "Boxed In? Australia's Plain Tobacco Packaging Initiative and International Investment Law" (2011) 27:4 Arbitration Int'l 623.
 
Rahim Moloo & Justin Jacinto, "Environmental and Health Regulation: Assessing Liability under Investment Treaties" (2011) 29 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 1.
 
Theodore H. Moran, "Enhancing the contribution of FDI to development: a new agenda for the corporate social responsibility community, international labour and civil society, aid donors and multilateral financial institutions" (April 2011) 20:1 Transnational Corporations 69, online: (2011) UNCTAD (Click here for online version).
 
Euyelit Adriana Morena-Paredes, "Note. El arbitraje de inversiones en America del Sur: propuesta de creacion de un centro alternativo de arbitraje de la estructura internacional de la Union de Naciones Suramericanas" (2010) 42 U. Miami Inter-Am. L. Rev. 175.
 
Peter Muchlinski, "Corporations and the Uses of Law: International Investment Arbitration as a ‘Multilateral Legal Order'" (2011) 1:4 Oñati Socio-Legal Series, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
James A.R. Nafziger & Angela M. Wanak, "United Parcel Service, Inc., v. Government of Canada: An Example of a Trend in the Arbitration of NAFTA-Related Investment Disputes" (2009) 17 Willamette J. Int'l L. & Disp. Resol. 49.
 
Luke R. Nottage, "The Rise and Possible Fall of Investor-State Arbitration in Asia: A Skeptic's View of Australia's ‘Gillard Government Trade Policy Statement'",Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 11/32, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Valentina Okaru-Bisant, "Proposals to combat the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency's deficiencies: promoting private water investments and preventing corruption and consumer risks" (2011) 14 Sustainable Dev. L.J. 1.
 
Miloš Olík & David Fyrbach, "The Competence of Investment Arbitration Tribunals to Seek Preliminary Rulings from European Courts" (2011) Czech Y.B. Int'l L. 191, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Ucheora Onwuamaegbu & Karl Sauvant, "FDI, the Global Crisis and sustainable recovery" (April 2011) 20:1 Transnational Corporations 1, online: (2011) UNCTAD (Click here for online version).
 
Matthew T. Parish, Annalise K. Nelson & Charles B. Rosenberg, "Awarding Moral Damages to Respondent States in Investment Arbitration" (2011) 29 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 225.
 
William W. Park, "Rectitude in International Arbitration" (2011) 27:3 Arbitration Int'l 473.
 
Parvan P. Parvanov, "The Hidden Duality of Summary Disposition of Claims in Investment Arbitration", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Jason Pierce, "Note. A South American energy treaty: how the region might attract foreign investment in a wake of resource nationalism" (2011) 44 Cornell Int'l L.J. 417.
 
Martina Polasek, "The Threshold for Registration of a Request for Arbitration under the ICSID Convention" (November 2011) 5:2 Disp. Resol. Int'l 177.
 
Michael Polkinghorne & Emilie Gonin, "Barristers from the Same Chambers Appearing as Counsel and Arbitrator: Independence Revisited?" (November 2011) 5:2 Disp. Resol. Int'l 163.
 
Michele Potestà, "The Interpretation of Consent to ICSID Arbitration Contained in Domestic Investment Laws" (2011) 27:2 Arbitration Int'l 149.
 
Lauge Skovgaard Poulsen & Gary Clyde Hufbauer, "Foreign direct investment in times of crisis" (April 2011) 20:1 Transnational Corporations 19, online: (2011) UNCTAD (Click here for online version).
 
Sergio Puig & Meg N. Kinnear, "NAFTA Chapter Eleven at Fifteen: Contributions to a Systemic Approach in Investment Arbitration" (2010) 25:2 ICSID Rev. - Foreign Investment L.J. 225, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Ramkishen S. Rajan & Hyun-Hoon Lee, "Cross-Border Investment Linkages Among APEC Economies: The Case of Foreign Direct Investment" (2011) 15:3 J. of Korea Trade 89; Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Research Paper No. PP11-27, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version). 
 
Ravi Ramamurti, "Impact of the crisis on new FDI players: past, present and future of sovereign wealth funds, private equity and emerging market transnational corporations" (April 2011) 20:1 Transnational Corporations 39, online: (2011) UNCTAD (Click here for online version).
 
Prabhash Ranjan, "Non-Precluded Measures in Indian International Investment Agreements and India's Regulatory Power as a Host Nation" (January 2012) 2:1 Asian J. Int'l L. 21.
 
Prabhash Ranjan, "The Enigma of Enforceability of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards in India" (January 2011) 6:1 Asian J. Comparative L., online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Alan M. Rugman, "The international financial crisis and transnational corporation strategy" (April 2011) 20:1 Transnational Corporations 103, online: (2011) UNCTAD (Click here for online version).
 
Giorgio Sacerdoti, "Corruption in Investment Transaction: Policy Initiatives, Legal Principles and Arbitral Practice" Bocconi Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1931598, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Giorgio Sacerdoti, "Precedent in the Settlement of International Economic Disputes: The WTO and Investment Arbitration Models" Bocconi Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1931560, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Rumu Sarkar, "Critical essay--a ‘re-visioned' foreign direct investment approach from an emerging country perspective: moving from a vicious circle to a virtuous cycle" (2011) 17 ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. L. 379.
 
Sameer Sattar, "Document production and the 2010 IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration: a commentary" (2011) 14:6 Int'l Arbitration L. Rev. 210.
 
Ben Saul, "China, Resources, and International Law" Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 11/82, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Stephan W. Schill, "Enhancing International Investment Law's Legitimacy: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of a New Public Law Approach" (Fall 2011) 52 Va. J. Int'l L. 57.
 
Stephan W. Schill, "W(h)ither fragmentation? On the literature and sociology of international investment law" (2011) 22 Eur. J. Int'l L. 875.
 
David Schneiderman, "Legitimacy and Reflexivity in International Investment Arbitration: A New Self-Restraint?" (2011) 1:4 Oñati Socio-Legal Series, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
C.H. Schreuer & Wolf Theiss, "The Protection of Investments in Armed Conflicts" (28 June 2011)
 
C.H. Schreuer & Wolf Theiss, "Why Still ICSID?" (8 November 2011)
 
Stephen M.  Schwebel, "Is Neer Far from Fair and Equitable?" (2011) 27:4 Arbitration Int'l 555.
 
Wenhua Shan & Sheng Zhang, "FDI in China and the Role of Law: An Empirical Approach" (August 2011) 12:4 J. World Investment & Trade.
 
Wei Shen, "Beyond the Scope of ‘Investor' and ‘Investment': Who can Make an Arbitration Claim under a Chinese BIT? - Some Implications from a Recent ICSID Case" (2010) 6:2 Asian Int'l Arbitration J. 164, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Wei Shen, "Is This a Great Leap Forward? A Comparative Review of the Investor-State Arbitration Clause in the ASEAN-China Investment Treaty: From BIT Jurisprudential and Practical Perspectives" (2010) 27:4 J. Int'l Arbitration 379 (Click here for online version).
 
Wei Shen, "Leaning Towards a More Liberal Stance? - An Evaluation of Substantive Protection Provisions Under the New ASEAN-China Investment Agreement in Light of Chinese BIT Jurisprudence" (2010) 26:4 J. London Ct. Int'l Arb, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Omphemetse Stephen Sibanda, "The NAFTA Labour Co-Ordination Regime: Lessons for Future Harmonisation of Labour Standards in the SADC" (2010) 73 J. Contemporary Roman-Dutch L. 93, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Hon. Bruno Simma, "Foreign investment arbitration: a place for human rights?" (2011) 60 Int'l & Comp. L.Q. 573.
 
Penelope C. Simons, "International Law's Invisible Hand and the Future of Corporate Accountability for Violations of Human Rights" (2012) 3:1 J. Human Rights & Environment, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Matthew Skinner et al., "The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules 2010" (2011) 7:1 Asian Int'l Arbitration J. 76.
 
Robert D. Sloane, "On the Use and Abuse of Necessity in the Law of State Responsibility" (2011) American J. Int'l L. (forthcoming), online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
David Smith, "Note. Shifting Sands: Cost-and-Fee Allocation in International Investment Arbitration" (2011) 51 Va. J. Int'l L. 749.
 
John G. Sprankling, "The Emergence of International Property Law" N.C.L. Rev. (forthcoming); Pacific McGeorge School of Law Research Paper No. 11-06, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Ramon Torrent, "The contradictory overlapping of national, EU, bilateral, and multilateral rules on foreign direct investment: who is guilty of such a mess?" (2011) 34 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1377.
 
Matthew C. Turk, "Why Does the Complainant Always Win at the WTO?: A Reputation-Based Theory of Litigation at the World Trade Organization"  (2011) 31 Northwestern J. Int'l L. & Bus. 385, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Valentina Sara Vadi, "Socio-Legal Perspectives on the Adjudication of Cultural Diversity Disputes in International Economic Law" (2011) 1:4 Oñati Socio-Legal Series 1, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Valentina Sara Vadi, "When Cultures Collide: Foreign Direct Investment, Natural Resources and Indigenous Heritage in International Investment Law" (2011) 42:3 Columbia Human Rights L. Rev., online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Martin J. Valasek, "Investor-State Arbitration in Canada" (October 2011) 29 No. 8 ACC Docket S5.
 
Veerle Van Den Eeckhout, "Corporate Human Rights Violations and Private International Law - The Hinge Function and Conductivity of PIL in Implementing Human Rights in Civil Proceedings in Europe: A Facilitating Role for PIL or PIL as a Complicating Factor?", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Gus Van Harten, "Contributions and Limitations of Empirical Research on Independence and Impartiality in International Investment Arbitration" (2011) 1:4 Oñati Socio-Legal Series, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Gus Van Harten, "Reform of Investor-State Arbitration: A Perspective from Canada", online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Gus Van Harten, "TWAIL and the Dabhol Arbitration" Osgoode CLPE Research Paper No. 19/2011, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Tania Voon & Andrew Mitchell, "Time to Quit? Assessing International Investment Claims Against Plain Tobacco Packaging in Australia" (September 2011) 14 J. Int'l Econ. L. 515.
 
Nathalie Voser, "Overview of the Most Important Changes in the Revised ICC Arbitration Rules" (2011) 29:4 ASA Bulletin 783.
 
Stepan Wood, "The Case for Leverage-Based Corporate Human Rights Responsibility" (2012) 22:1 Business Ethics Quarterly 63, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 
Jeanne M. Woods, "A human rights framework for corporate accountability" (2011) 17 ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. L. 321.
 
Jason W. Yackee, "Investment Treaties and Investor Corruption: An Emergent Defense for Host States?" Va. J. Int'l L. (forthcoming); Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1181, online: (2011) SSRN (Click here for online version).
 

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