The reform option on the Standing Multilateral Mechanism (SMM) currently under discussion at UNCITRAL's Working Group III (WGIII) has raised a number of important, systemic concerns for the procedural reforms of investor-State dispute settlement. This paper first seeks to situate the discussions...

When foreign investment meets China : legal developments and legal landscape (1978-2018) -- New bottle or old wine? -- Major changes in Foreign Investment Law 2019 -- Negative list : a changing governance model -- Intellectual property protection in domestic and bilateral contexts -- Another...

Recent data show that the institutional content of preferential trade agreements has evolved over time. Although pre-1990s preferential trade agreements mostly focused on tariff liberalization, recent agreements increasingly contain deep provisions in diverse areas, such as intellectual property...

Bangladesh is considered as one of the emerging markets for making an investment to the investors of the world due to its promising and consistent GDP growth. The United Nations (UN) Committee for Development Policy (CDP) which is a subsidiary body of Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the...

Recent data show that the institutional content of preferential trade agreements has evolved over time. Although pre-1990s preferential trade agreements mostly focused on tariff liberalization, recent agreements increasingly contain deep provisions in diverse areas, such as intellectual property...

“Meeting environmental objectives are part of a dynamic and integrated process in which economic, social and environmental objectives are closely intertwined”. This declaration made at the Rio+20 Declaration on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability encapsulates the...

This book by Professor Peter Cameron examines the current multifaceted and multilayered system of legal stability for energy investments and how this system has been tested by unilateral state demands for contract renegotiation. Cameron's contextual point of departure is the extraordinary...

Recent research studying the link between law, and finance has concentrated on country-level investor protection measures, and focused on differences in legal systems across countries, and legal families. The authors extend this literature, and provide a study of firm-level corporate governance...

International investment agreements (IIAs) almost universally define their temporal validity and thus set conditions for States’ exit from these treaties. This study presents the results of the survey of language that determines the temporal validity of 2,061 bilateral investment agreements...

This article aims at empirically investigating the evolution of China's BIT policy since the early 1980s and compares it with current developed country approaches. Analysing the development of substantive and procedural investment protection provisions, it argues that China has pro-actively...