EU member state investment treaties have been criticized for potentially deterring EU countries from pursuing desirable policy measures. This paper explores whether these treaties can nonetheless serve a beneficial geoeconomic function for the EU by safeguarding EU investments in five minerals...

This Perspective focuses on the thorny interplay between the global minimum tax regime and the global investment regime. Within that 'niche' of a high level of complexity and thus specialization, the Perspective answers the question: how best to minimize conflicts between those regimes.

Positive obligations stemming from international human rights law require states to realize fundamental rights. This Perspective argues that those human rights obligations may serve as basis for the conceptualization of a duty to regulate in investment law. Furthermore, it reflects on the...

Using archival material from states, international organizations, and business actors, this paper explores how the Association for the Promotion and Protection of Private Foreign Investments (APPI), a transnational business interest association (BIA), liaised with different international...

With investments in outer space growing exponentially and with more states seeking to develop domestic space capabilities, states should be aware of their rights and obligations under international space law and of the potential applicability of investment protection obligations to space...