Rule-of-law in international trade and investments? : between multilevel arbitration, adjudication and ‘judicial overrreach'

All human societies use law as an instrument of social ordering and governance. And in all human societies, abuses of ‘rule-by-law’ have led to ‘struggles for justice’ aimed at protecting ‘rule-of-law’. The second half of the 20th century has seen an unprecedented increase in the number of international trade, investment, economic and other courts at bilateral, regional and worldwide levels of governance