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International Investment Law and Arbitration: Cases, Materials, and Commentary


ISBN13: 9780199640157
To be Published: July 2025
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £45.00
Hardback edition not yet published, ISBN13 9780199640140



This book brings together all essential documents, materials, and case law on international investment law and international investment arbitration. These extracts from the primary material are accompanied by explanatory commentary placing the documents in their wider context within the international investment legal system. International investment law has emerged as a dynamic area of international law, ripe with controversies over the balance between state sovereignty and investment protection, the decentralized system of international investment law, the scope of international investment agreement protections, investor-state arbitration, and the rights and obligations of international investors.

This book highlights each of these controversies, providing an overview of the historical development of international investment law, its purpose, its contractual protection, and the background to investment treaties. It assesses the substantive obligations required by the applicable law and the key issues currently facing the field, including umbrella clauses, exceptions and defences, and reparations. The book gives a detailed overview of international dispute settlement, introducing the fundamental features of investor-state arbitrations, before demonstrating the significant jurisdictional hurdles a claimant faces in order to prosecute its claim. It explains of the difference between objections to jurisdiction and to admissibility, before providing an in-depth assessment of procedural issues, the enforcement of awards, and sovereign immunity. Finally, it assesses current issues in international investment law, including investment and the environment, coroporate social responsibility, and critiques of the legitimacy of the investment treaty regime, suggesting future directions for international investment law. In addressing each of these issues the book has as its principal foundation the primary materials relevant to the topics under discussion. Presented in a clear and focused manner, this book is an essential resource for students and practitioners in the field of international investment law and arbitration.

Subjects:
International Investment Law, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Contents:
PART I: CONTEXT SETTING
1. International Investment Law: Policy and Purposes
2. Historical Development of International Investment Law
3. Concession Agreements and Investment Contracts
4. Investment Treaties: Background, Structure, Obligations, and Dispute Settlement

PART II: APPLICABLE LAW, SCOPE, AND SUBSTANTIVE OBLIGATIONS
5. Applicable Substantive Law and Interpretation
6. Investment
7. Investors
8. National Treatment
9. Most Favored Nation Treatment
10. Minimum Standards of Treatment
11. Fair and Equitable Treatment
12. Expropriation
13. Contract v. Treaty Claims and the Umbrella Clause
14. Exceptions and Defences
15. Reparations

PART III: DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
16. Basics of Dispute Settlement
17. Jurisdiction in Investment Arbitration
18. Jurisdiction and Admissibility
19. Procedural Issues
20. Control Mechanisms - Annulment and Review of Arbitral Awards
21. Enforcement of Awards and Sovereign Immunity

PART IV: ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW
22. Investment and Labour, the Environment, and Human Rights
23. International Obligations of Investors and Corporate Social Responsibility
24. Critiques and Responses
25. Future Directions