Investment Law Within International Law

Foreword Nico Schrijver; Part I. International Investment and Armed Conflict: 1. The protection of investments in armed conflicts Christoph Schreuer; 2. The interaction between investment law and the law of armed conflict in the interpretation of full protection and security clauses Gleider I. Hernandez; 3. International criminal responsibility of transnational corporate actors doing business in zones of armed conflict Philipp Ambach; Part II. International Investment and Human Rights: 4. Investment tribunals and human rights treaties: a sociological perspective Moshe Hirsch; 5. The interaction of international investment arbitration and the rights of indigenous peoples Judith Levine; 6. The protection against expropriations in Venezuela: a right to property in theory? Leonie Timmers; 7. International human rights and the interpretation of international investment treaties - constitutional considerations N. Jansen Calamita; Part III. International Investment and Sustainable Development: 8. International investment agreements and the emerging green economy: rising up to the challenge Markus W. Gehring and Avidan Kent; 9. The role of international investment agreements in fostering sustainable development Wolfgang Alschner and Elisabeth Tuerk; 10. Reservations, corporate social responsibility, and other mechanisms in support of sustainable development in Canada's model Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) Pierre-Olivier Savoie; 11. Deciding international investment agreement applicability: the development argument in investment Diane A. Desierto; Part IV. International Investment, Trade and Developing Countries: 12. International investment law and trade: the relationship that never went away Mary E. Footer; 13. Reviewing the administration of domestic regulation in WTO and investment law: the international minimum standard as 'one standard to rule them all'? Anastasios Gourgourinis; 14. Are investment treaty standards flexible enough to meet the needs of developing countries? Ursula Kriebaum; 15. Relevance of the host state's development status in investment treaty arbitration Maria Gritsenko; Part V. International Investment and the European Union: 16. The investment regime under Article 207 TFEU: a legal conundrum, the scope of 'foreign direct investment' and the future of intra-EU BITs Friedl Weiss and Silke Steiner; 17. International investment and the European Union: an uneasy relationship Thomas Henquet; 18. The new EU competence in foreign direct investment and intra-EU investment treaties: does the emperor have new clothes? Rumiana Yotova; Part VI. Outlook: International Investment in the Twenty-First Century: 19. International investment dispute settlement in the twenty-first century: does the preservation of the public interest require an alternative to the arbitral model? Nicolas Hachez and Jan Wouters; 20. Non-investment obligations in investment treaty arbitration - towards a greater role for states? Vid Prislan; 21. Fragmentation, consolidation and the future relationship between international investment law and general international law Ralph Alexander Lorz.