States across Asia have long engaged in international investment treaty making, and to a lesser extent in investor …-state dispute settlement (ISDS) proceedings. Engagement has intensified partly as bilateral investment treaties (BITs) proliferated … BITs and press out in new directions. This paper details Asia's trajectory towards becoming more of a “law maker” by …

) concerning their laws screening foreign direct investment (FDI) and current approaches towards investment treaties, including the … Asian region, as part of its growing influence on international investment law more generally. To further tease out such … Australia and New Zealand in a leaked investment chapter for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP or ‘ASEAN 6 …

-- Judicial Diplomacy? : The Role of the CJEU in EU-Asia Trade Disputes / Andrés Delgado Casteleiro -- Law and Diplomacy in EU …-China Trade Relations : A Historical Overview / Jappe Eckhart -- EU-Asia Investors-States Disputes : Assertive Legalism for …-Wen Hsueh -- Preventing Divergences from Becoming Disputes : The Elusive EU-China Investment Negotiations / -- Julien Chaisse …

The recent increase in bilateral investment treaties and free trade agreements entered into by Asian states has exposed …

With the evolution of Asia's investment policy-making, Asian States may no longer support conventional paradigms of … ISDS, but a desire for a fresh review and reform of the International Investment Agreements (‘IAA') regime and ISA … basis of selected contemporary developments in the Asia-Pacific – namely, in Indonesia, India, Australia, China, and …

India's decision to adopt a new model BIT especially in light of the growing debate on how to reconcile investment … India under different BITs, to the reality that broad and vague investment protection standards can be interpreted in … manners that give precedence to investment protection over host State's right to regulate. The Indian attempt in the new model …

Book review of: Carlos Esplugues (ed), Foreign Investment and Investment Arbitration in Asia. Cambridge: Intersentia …