This open access book examines the multiple intersections between national and international courts in the field of investment protection, and suggests possible modes for regulating future jurisdictional interactions between domestic courts and international tribunals. The current system of...

1. Introduction / Junji Nakagawa and Daniel Magraw -- 2. The Ordre public dimensions of confidentiality and transparency in international arbitration / Florentino P. Feliciano -- 3. Transparency and the role of domestic process / Yuka Fukunaga -- 4. Why should there be public knowledge and...

The rapid rise in global fragmentation - foreign investment, global supply chains, and 'production sharing' - is fundamentally reshaping the multilateral trading system. This paper uses a simple economic modeling framework to understand how the global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape the...

While there is an extensive amount of literature on the noodle bowl of agreements in Asia, the majority of studies exclusively focus on trade (in goods). So far, little emphasis has been placed on the proliferation of international investment treaties (IIAs). Given the significance of IIAs, it...