The idea of investment treaty arbitration as public law is in tension with the concept of international law as a law between representative public agencies. This concept of international law is valuable for its capacity to progress a broad range of public policy aims in an integrated and...

Ambition for employing public international legal authority as a means for the protection of human health and the environment appears to be diminishing in our transnationalist economic era. Practical and political challenges in defining the complex relationships between States and...