The climate change debate in the United States has now moved beyond arguments about whether climate change is real and man-made to focus on what the country should do about this threat. In this excerpt of an Article published in the Columbia Law Review, we take on and debunk the “climate...

The international trading system, embodied in the World Trade Organization (WTO), is rightly celebrated as one of the great successes of international cooperation. The success of that system, however, has not been matched in other important areas of international policymaking, including...

Over the past forty-five years, bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have become the most important international legal mechanism for the encouragement and governance of foreign direct investment. Their proliferation over the past two decades in particular has been phenomenal. These...