The universalization of human rights norms and the global liberalization of corporate and commercial endeavor are two especially conspicuous players on the globalization stage. Both, to some extent, rely on the notion of the Rule of Law to promote their ends, though they rely on different...

Climate change challenges the resiliency and integrity of social and legal systems worldwide. Responding to climate change requires us to think systematically – and ambitiously – about how to engage the rule of law as a tool in efforts to limit the causes and consequences of climate change....

The UN Declaration of 24 September 2012 reaffirming the commitment of Heads of State and Government to the Rule of Law reflects the current uneasiness accompanying the application of just the concept. This short paper argues that it is due to discrepancies in its worldwide understanding and to...

This short paper argues that in the next decades we are likely to see a fundamental separation in the form and contents of the international rule of law. In a sizeable, but relatively small group of states, international law transforms itself from its international roots and interconnects and...

This article is part 2 of a series on Rule of Law as it relates to international investment issues. The article describes how the system of bilateral investment treaties and other international investment agreements have created a form of rule of law to protect foreign investors against certain...

Parallel to the view that national and international law are two separate legal orders, the concept of the rule of law is often separated into a national and an international rule of law. Since the content of both can differ, this can lead to a confrontational perspective which ultimately asks...

International investment arbitration can be said to be built on a great asymmetry: on the one hand, foreign investors are endowed with a set of significant rights, most notably the right to initiate disputes before arbitration tribunals; on the other hand, States and citizens of the host State...

This book explores the contribution that international economic law generally defined makes to the rule of law at national and international levels. The contributions of this book either:(i) examine particular features of the rule of law from a viewpoint of the contribution (at international or...