The academic literature on international investment treaties, foreign investment contracts and investor-state dispute settlement is dominated by legal analysis. This is understandable in light of the complexity and, until recently, relative obscurity of the field. However, it is imperative that...

Humanity is currently faced with two global crises, one financial and one environmental. Although ostensibly distinct, these crises are in fact interlinked. Unsustainable consumption, at the heart of the environmental crisis, is driven to a large extent by unsustainable debt, which creates...

In the wake of the global financial crisis (GFC), governments in many countries developed Keynesian fiscal stimulus packages to reinvigorate their economies. Most of these stimulus packages contained a portion of measures that were labelled by governments and other organizations as ‘green’....

The literature on environmental regulation of the upstream oil and gas sector in developing countries and economies in transition has focused largely on domestic legislation as well as a number of intergovernmental agreements and, more recently, voluntary industry initiatives. Much less notice...

The importance of law, and investment contracts in particular, has been noted in recent discussions around ‘land grabbing’. This article extends a legal analysis to what has been termed ‘green grabbing’ in this special issue and argues that the contracts that shape foreign investment in...

This article examines the relationship between foreign direct investment in the mineral sector and environmental regulation in developing countries. It argues that two major trends in global mineral investment have emerged in recent years: increased competition amongst developing countries to...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is the most important source of external finance in developing countries because it is more stable than portfolio investments and bank lending, and far more available than Official Development Assistance. In order to attract FDI, countries have increasingly...