Shifting Paradigms in International Investment Law: More Balanced, Less Isolated, Increasingly Diversified

International investment law is in transition. Whereas the prevailing mindset has always been the protection of the economic interests of individual investors, new developments in international investment law have brought about a paradigm shift. There is now more than ever before an interest in a more inclusive, transparent, and public regime. Shifting Paradigms in International Investment Law addresses these changes against the background of the UNCTAD framework to reform investment treaties. The book analyses how the investment treaty regime has changed and how it ought to be changing to reconcile private property interests and the state's duty to regulate in the public interest. In doing so, the volume tracks attempts in international investment law to recalibrate itself towards a more balanced, less isolated, and increasingly diversified regime. The individual chapters of this edited volume address the contents of investment agreements, the system of dispute settlement, the interrelation of investment agreements with other areas of public international law, constitutional questions, and new regional perspectives from Europe, South Africa, the Pacific Rim Region, and Latin America. Together they provide an invaluable resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. The individual chapters of this edited volume address the contents of investment agreements, the system of dispute settlement, the interrelation of investment agreements with other areas of public international law, constitutional questions, and new regional perspectives from Europe, South Africa, the Pacific Rim Region, and Latin America. Together they provide an invaluable resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. Contributors to this volume - Helmut Philipp Aust - Humboldt University of Berlin Katharina Berner - Humboldt University of Berlin Steffen Hindelang - Free University of Berlin Frank Hoffmeister - European Commission and the Free University of Brussels Till Holterhus - Georg August University of Gottingen Jonathan Ketcheson - University of Cambridge Roland Klager - Haver & Mailander Rechtsanwalte in Stuttgart Markus Krajewski - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Maria Luque - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Peter Muchlinski - SOAS, University of London Karsten Nowrot - University of Hamburg August Reinisch - University of Vienna Giorgio Sacerdoti - Bocconi University Kunal Sharma - University of New South Wales Lukas Stifter - University of Vienna Peter-Tobias Stoll - Georg August University of Gottingen Leon E. Trakman - University of New South Wales Gus Van Harten - Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto J. Anthony VanDuzer - University of Ottawa Sean Woolfrey - European Centre for Development Policy Management