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Reforming International Investment Law: Institutional Change v....
Stephan Schill, LL.M. (Augsburg) 2002; LL.M. (NYU) 2006; Dr. iur. (Frankfurt) 2008, is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Principal...
View ArticleThe Virtues of Investor-State Arbitration
In my last post I discussed the different options for reforming investor-state dispute settlement put forward in a recent UNCTAD policy paper and argued that enacting institutional reforms without...
View ArticleThe Public Law Paradigm in International Investment Law
In my last post, I discussed the virtues of investor-State arbitration and suggested that this dispute settlement system could react to current criticism by reconceptualizing the system from within. To...
View ArticleComparative Public Law Methodology in International Investment Law
In my last post I argued that investment law should be reconceived as a system of public law adjudication in order to react to current criticism. The debate over the role of public law in investment...
View ArticleThe Public Law Approach in the Practice of Investment Treaty Arbitration
In my last post, I discussed how comparative public law methodology could inform the resolution of investor-State disputes and thus help to reform the system from within. This may sound like a view...
View ArticleArbitrator Independence and Academic Freedom
In international law, members of the discipline often fill a variety of professional roles. Many are scholars and practitioners at the same time; some even act in capacities that are mutually...
View ArticleTowards a Constitutional Law Framework for Investment Law Reform
Reforming international investment law and investor-state arbitration is a widespread concern. This is nowhere more manifest than in the heated debates (in Germany and elsewhere) about the EU-Canada...
View ArticleThe Mauritius Convention on Transparency: A Model for Investment Law Reform?
In the midst of heated debates on investor-State dispute settlement in Europe, on 10 December 2014 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention on Transparency in...
View ArticleThe Constitutional Frontiers of International Economic Law
The End of Mega-Regionalism? The future of ‘mega-regionals’, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), has become doubtful since President...
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