Full Description
The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication that provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.
The 2020 edition includes policy, thematic and regional developments from 2020 in investment law and policy, including the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on investment flows and governance. The chapters also raise questions relevant to the governance of investment in the context of existing and future global socio-economic and environmental crises.
Edited by an Editorial Committee and overseen by an Advisory Board of esteemed global experts in the field of international investment law, the Yearbook is an essential tool for practitioners and academics looking for a resource of timely and authoritative information in this field.
Contents
PART I: Year in Review
a. Developments in Foreign Investment
1: Sarah Bauerle Danzman: Trends in Foreign Direct Investment Flows and Policy in 2020
2: Chris Tassis and Celine Tan: Global Investment Trends Related to FDI and Investment Policy in the Context of Financing the Sustainable Development Agenda
3: José Antonio Ocampo and Tommaso Faccio: Taxing Multinationals Post COVID-19: From Race to the Bottom to Progressive Taxation
4: Kinda Mohamadieh: Institutional Developments in Investment Law and Policy
5: Anthony VanDuzer and Penelope Simons: Developments in Home State Foreign Direct Investment Policies for Responsible Investment
6: Sofia Baliño and Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder: Investment Facilitation Talks Among WTO Members Transition to Negotiations, Adapt to Shifting Ministerial Timeline
7: Wouter PF Schmit Jongbloed: Decoupling and Political Risk: From Phase One to Coercive Economic Controls in United States-China Relations
b. Developments in Investor-State Arbitration
8: Jarrod Hepburn: Developments in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Jurisdiction, Admissibility, Procedure and Conduct, and Provisional Measures
9: Damien Charlotin: Developments in Investment Treaty Arbitration
c. Thematic Developments in Investment Policy
10: Pekka Niemelä and Martin Björklund: Developments Related to Climate Change and Renewables
11: Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss: ISDS and Intellectual Property in 2020: Protecting Public Health in the Age of Pandemics
12: Silvia Steininger: Investment and Human Rights in the Shadow of the Pandemic: Recent Developments in 2020
13: Nicolás M. Perrone: Investment Law and Policy in the Extractive Industries
d. Regional Reports
14: Sangwani Patrick Ng ambi: Investment Law and Policy: Overview of 2020 Developments in Africa
15: Ibrahim M. Amir and Craig D. Gaver: Developments in International Investment Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
16: Trinh Hai Yen and Nguyen Thi Nhung: International Investment Law and Policy: Overview of 2020 Developments in Asia
17: Hannes Lenk: Developments in International Investment Law and Policy in the European Union
18: Fabio Morosini and Ely Caetano Xavier, Jr.: Developments in International Investment Law and Policy in the Americas
Part II: General Articles
19: Gary Shaw and Lorena Guzmán-Díaz: Looking in on Transparency: A 2020 Review of States' Reactions to the UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency and the Mauritius Convention
20: Rimdolmson Jonathan Kabre: Establishing an Advisory Centre on Investment Law: What Significance for African Countries?
21: Clara Reichenbach: The Corruption Defence and the Jurisdictional Consequences of Corruption Allegations in International Law and Investment Arbitration
Part III: Book Reviews
22: Josef Ostranský: 'Beyond Legal Imagination': Nicholas M. Perrone, Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Investors Play by Their Own Rules (OUP 2021)
23: Luis Parada: Robin Broad and John Cavanaugh, The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
