This Article examines the development of a European framework for considering the law applicable to state private interventions in the market, both their own and those of other states through direct investment or through sovereign wealth funds. For this purpose, it closely analyzes the so-called...

Though operating in some form or another for over half a century, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) did not become an object of general attention until the early part of the 21st century when a combination of the need of developed states for investment and the growing acceptability of state...

Especially since the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, once more we have seen more focused interest in the use of SWFs by home states — less as a means of projecting sovereign financial power outwards and more as a means of internal financial management, and development....

In The Law of Sovereign Wealth Funds. Fabio Bassan has taken on a very great challenge. He would provide a legal structure for sovereign wealth fund regulation, and simultaneously, he would interrogate the consequences of the sovereign character of projections of private power between states....