This paper discusses problems of legal fragmentation of international investment law and human rights law and related legal methodology questions regarding person-oriented principles of justice (such as human rights and “proportionality balancing”) in contrast to the more commonly applied...

Host states have a duty under investment treaties to provide fair and equitable treatment or full protection and security to foreign investors. Should the concrete application of this standard vary according to the host country’s resources and state of development? It may not always seem...

In this article I propose to see the history of the international law on foreign investment as about the diffusion of investor rights as much as the resistance to investor obligations. My argument is that the divide between investment protection and the responsibility of foreign investors is one...

This chapter reviews and synthesizes the work of economists and law and economics scholars in the field of public international law. The bulk of that work has been in the area of international trade, but many of the ideas in the trade literature have implications for other subfields. Recent...