China and the United States declared to launch the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) negotiations at the conclusion of the fourth China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) on June 18, 2008. This BIT negotiation revives a failed BIT program of 20 years ago. It can be expected that China-US BIT...

This chapter analyzes how the methodological transition of the UN Security Council's sanctions regimes has necessitated, as well as justified, greater changes in domestic law. This chapter examines the cases of two East Asian countries, the People's of Republic of China (PRC) and Japan. The...

The BRICS in the New International Legal Order on Investment: Reformers or Disruptors is written by international experts with BRICS backgrounds. The book investigates why and how the BRICS countries modernize their approach to the investment treaty regime. The chapters are organized by BRICS...

International custom is one of the main sources of international law. As a relatively new branch of international law, international investment treaties, emerging in the late 1950s and having been very energetic since the mid-1990s, have become a driving force and an important forum for the...