Investment treaty law – which is scattered over 3 000 international investment agreements adopted over a period of 50 years – is a crucial but complex basis for regulating international investment flows. Investment treaties are often thought to be silent on investors’ responsibilities to...

Introduction -- Stability: external and internal -- What drives compliance with international environmental agreements? / by Sarah Al Doyaili and Leo Wangler -- Stable environmental agreements and international trade in asymmetric oligopoly markets / by Michel Cavagnac and Guillaume Cheikbossian...

This is an introduction to the special issue on environmental laws and sustainability of the on-line peer review journal, Sustainability. In this introduction, we attempt to synthesize key lessons from the issue’s ten substantive articles. These lessons involve the use of law to achieve...