Shifting Paradigms in International Investment Law: More Balanced, Less Isolated, Increasingly Diversified

International investment law is in transition. Whereas the prevailing mindset has always been the protection of the economic interests of individual investors, new developments in international investment law have brought about a paradigm shift. There is now more than ever before an interest in a more inclusive, transparent, and public regime.

Shifting Paradigms in International Investment Law addresses these changes against the background of the UNCTAD framework to reform investment treaties. The book analyses how the investment treaty regime has changed and how it ought to be changing to reconcile private property interests and the state's duty to regulate in the public interest. In doing so, the volume tracks attempts in international investment law to recalibrate itself towards a more balanced, less isolated, and increasingly diversified regime.

The individual chapters of this edited volume address the contents of investment agreements, the system of dispute settlement, the interrelation of investment agreements with other areas of public international law, constitutional questions, and new regional perspectives from South Africa and Latin America. Together they provide an invaluable resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.

Author: Steffen Hindelang
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 03/21/2016
Pages: 484
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780198738428

About the Author
Steffen Hindelang, Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Free University Berlin, Markus Krajewski, Professor of Public Law and International Law, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Steffen Hindelang is Associate Professor at the Free University Berlin. He has advised governments on international investment disputes and was recently invited by the European Parliament to produce a study on investor-state dispute settlement.

Markus Krajewski is Professor of Public Law and International Law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He advises international governmental and non-governmental organizations on European and international economic law and has acted as consultant in development cooperation projects.