The contemporary international investment legal regime represents the perfect embodiment of commercial cosmopolitanism. Foreign investors are protected by a thickening web of bilateral (and trilateral) investment and trade treaties that provide for expansive property rights backed by secluded,...

The development of the modern investment treaty regime represents a remarkable extension of international law in the post-war period. However, the development of this regime has precipitated a backlash from some states, various civil society actors, and scholars over the past decade. For all...

The growth in the signing of international investment agreements (IIAs) in the period 1990 to 2009 can be characterised as an international public policy bubble. Like the rise of privatisation at the domestic level, the expansion of this international treaty regime was arguably premised on an...

Investment arbitration has long been dominated by a coterie of Western “grand old men.” Is it still? In this paper, we examine the inroads women have made, drawing on a new database of approximately 4000 individuals in investment arbitration. We exploit the variation in appointment...

The ability to ensure compliance with investor-state arbitral awards is often regarded as one of the strengths of the international investment regime. Yet there have been few systematic studies of compliance to assess the extent to which states have actually complied with adverse investor-state...