The proliferation of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and treaty-based investment arbitration has raised concerns over the extent to which IIAs are actually fair and are able to balance the interests of foreign investors and States. The strong protections afforded by IIAs to investors...

International investment agreements (“IIAs”) provide enforceable protections to foreign investors based on the premise that enforceable investor protections will stimulate greater foreign investment flows, which, in turn, are assumed to promote development. However, as understandings of both...

This paper provides a brief overview of recent UNCTAD research on the nexus between international investment treaties and sustainable development. After sketching the historic evolution and current trends in IIA treaty practice, it explores the linkages between IIAs and three areas of public...

International investment agreements (“IIAs”) provide enforceable protections to foreign investors in order to stimulate investment flows and therefore sustainable development. However, as understandings of both the effectiveness of these agreements as well as the effects of investment and...

Critics of international investment agreements (IIAs) argue that the IIA regime threatens sustainable development. This paper evaluates the IIA regime against the New Delhi Declaration's seven principles of international law relating to sustainable development and concludes that the IIA regime...

Sustainable Development and International Investment Law: Friends or Foes? Olufunmilola Sodipo AbstractIn recent years, foreign investors have challenged a range of government measures that negatively affect their investments through the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism....

The paper aims at studying the potential accommodation of the concept of sustainable development within the regime of international law regulating foreign direct investment (FDI). Reconciliation of international investment law and sustainable development is part of the current awareness of...