This paper addresses the impact the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises have on the field of international investment law. More specifically, the paper shows how the Guidelines, and similar instruments of corporate social responsibility (CSR), as well as the underlying concerns and...

This paper provides a critical introduction to the approaches taken in legal research to address issues relating to foreign direct investment (FDI). It starts from a broad understanding of legal approaches to FDI, as encompassing substance and procedure under both national and international law....

This second edition of this publication provides an overview of important contemporary issues relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises for all those who are interested in this subject, but are not always in a position to follow diverse perspectives and what is...

The paper addresses the phenomenon of how international investment law contributes to the ‘internationalization' and ‘transnationalization' of public contracts law, often even much beyond the narrow class of public contracts involving foreign investors. This includes restrictions on...

In contemporary discourse, international investment law (IIL) and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) are often perceived as threats to community interests in one-sidedly protecting foreign investors and undermining public policies that are to the benefit of the local population and the...

The global crises of the early 21st century that have tested the international financial architecture. In seeking to ensure stability, governments have regulated financial and capital markets. This in turn has implicated international investment law, which investors have invoked as a shield...

The paper advances the paradoxical thesis that international investment law is developing towards a multilateral system of investment protection on the basis of bilateral treaties. Despite the infinite fragmentation of substantive investment law, coupled with arbitration as a decentralized...