In recent decades international economic disputes have become ever more legalized, which in principle allows states to compartmentalize individual disputes from broader diplomatic relations. Nowhere is this more true than in the international investment regime, where private investors have been empowered to directly sue host states in international arbitration, rather than relying on their home states for diplomatic support. I challenge the standard narrative that investment protection has become "depoliticized", and reveal the persistent importance of informal commercial diplomacy in the settlement of investment disputes. I show that the US government continues to intervene diplomatically in disputes between American investors and develop...
After decades of growth and popularity, the international investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) r...
The exclusion of investor-state arbitration from the TTIP agreement would represent a regressive dev...
With the rise of treaty-based investor-state dispute settlement (“ISDS”) which has taken place over ...
The modern investor-state arbitration regime was explicitly designed to replace commercial diplomacy...
From the end of 18th century, investors from the Western hemisphere were in need of a protection for...
Using data on international investment arbitration, the authors catalog the types of state actors in...
Throughout history, foreign investors have often relied on their home governments for support in man...
While the World Trade Organization (WTO) system remains faithful to the long-standing traditional pa...
The ICSID investor-State arbitration system has been recently criticized as a system favouring inves...
This book advances the idea that in order to address some of the criticisms against investor-state d...
Masaki Nakamoto for research assistance. Thirty years of negotiation on an international regime on i...
To protect American investment abroad, the United States traditionally endorsed arbitration as the p...
A Primer created by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment discussing international investmen...
The regime for international investment is extraordinary in public international law and controversi...
Literature on the investment treaty regime has shown little interest in diplomatic interests and age...
After decades of growth and popularity, the international investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) r...
The exclusion of investor-state arbitration from the TTIP agreement would represent a regressive dev...
With the rise of treaty-based investor-state dispute settlement (“ISDS”) which has taken place over ...
The modern investor-state arbitration regime was explicitly designed to replace commercial diplomacy...
From the end of 18th century, investors from the Western hemisphere were in need of a protection for...
Using data on international investment arbitration, the authors catalog the types of state actors in...
Throughout history, foreign investors have often relied on their home governments for support in man...
While the World Trade Organization (WTO) system remains faithful to the long-standing traditional pa...
The ICSID investor-State arbitration system has been recently criticized as a system favouring inves...
This book advances the idea that in order to address some of the criticisms against investor-state d...
Masaki Nakamoto for research assistance. Thirty years of negotiation on an international regime on i...
To protect American investment abroad, the United States traditionally endorsed arbitration as the p...
A Primer created by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment discussing international investmen...
The regime for international investment is extraordinary in public international law and controversi...
Literature on the investment treaty regime has shown little interest in diplomatic interests and age...
After decades of growth and popularity, the international investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) r...
The exclusion of investor-state arbitration from the TTIP agreement would represent a regressive dev...
With the rise of treaty-based investor-state dispute settlement (“ISDS”) which has taken place over ...