Contrary to mainstream consensus on the dominance of English common law countries in investment prospects, this paper sets a new tone in the legal origins debate by providing empirical validity on the dominance of French civil-law countries in private investment. The assessment is based on 38...

The future of the international investment regime is rapidly evolving and many different kinds of investment treaties are now being negotiated. In particular, the EU, which is emerging as a new actor on the scene of international Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy will need to know what kind...

Increasing dissatisfaction with investor-State dispute settlement has weakened the adversarial approach to international investment law and policy. This article argues that global initiatives, such as the UNCTAD's Global Action Menu for Investment Facilitation (the ‘Action Menu'), provides...

In this paper we investigate the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) across Latin American countries from 1995 to 2012. We use an augmented gravity model in which we control for cross-country...