Placing constraints on elected officials is thought to bind their hands and render government policies credible. In turn, credible policies attract investment because investors can extend their policy and regulatory time horizons. Yet, a scholarship on LMICs suggests that too many constraints on...

This discussion paper focuses on potential conflicts between the doctrine of state responsibility as applied in two investment treaty decisions (Chevron v. Ecuador II and Arif v. Moldova) and the institutional norm of inter-branch autonomy, which has been identified as a causal channel for...

This is the report of a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, on behalf of Hogan Lovells, the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, and the Investment Treaty Forum of the the British Institute of International Comparative Law, on the relationship between corporate Foreign Direct...