Thursday, May 28, 2009

New Volume: Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy, 2008-2009 is out. Contents include:
  • Persephone Economou, John H. Dunning, & Karl P. Sauvant, Trends and Issues in International Investment
  • Peter Muchlinski, Trends in International Investment Agreements: Balancing Investor Rights and the Right to Regulate. The Issue of National Security
  • Ian A. Laird & Borzu Sabahi, Trends in International Investment Disputes: 2007 in Review
  • Albert Bressand, Foreign Direct Investment in the Oil and Gas Sector: Recent Trends and Strategic Drivers
  • Karl P. Sauvant, Driving and Countervailing Forces: A Rebalancing of National FDI Policies
  • Patrick Juillard, The Law of International Investment: Can the Imbalance be Redressed?
  • Kenneth J. Vandevelde, A Comparison of the 2004 and 1994 U.S. Model BITs: Rebalancing Investor and Host Country Interests
  • Stanimir A. Alexandrov & Joshua M. Robbins, Proximate Causation in International Investment Disputes
  • Charles H. Brower, II, Obstacles and Pathways to Consideration of the Public Interest in Investment Treaty Disputes
  • José E. Alvarez & Kathryn Khamsi, The Argentine Crisis and Foreign Investors: A Glimpse into the Heart of the Investment Regime
  • Andrea K. Bjorklund, Economic Security Defenses in International Investment Law
  • Thomas W. Wälde, Improving the Mechanisms for Treaty Negotiation and Investment Disputes: Competition and Choice as the Path to Quality and Legitimacy