Investment Law and Policy

Members of the Investment Law and Policy team conduct research on a variety of legal issues arising with respect to the international investment treaties and international economic governance. Recent and forthcoming publications include the following:

• Ayelet Berman, ‘Taking Foreign Interests into Account: Rulemaking in the U.S. and EU’ (2017) 15 International Journal of Constitutional Law 235–56 (2017).
• Ayelet Berman, ‘Industry, Regulatory Capture and Transnational Standard Setting’ (2017) 111 American Journal of International Law Unbound.
• N Jansen Calamita, ‘The (In)Compatibility of Appellate Mechanisms with Existing Instruments of the Investment Treaty Regime’ (2017) 18 Journal of World Investment & Trade 585–
• N Jansen Calamita, ‘Are Investments in Water Different? Sectoral Economics, Investment Treaty Architecture, and the Role of Governance’ in J Chaisse (ed), Governance of the Global Sanitation and Water Services Market (Cambridge University Press 2016).
• N Jansen Calamita, ‘The Changing Landscape of Transparency in Investor-State Arbitration: The UNCITRAL Transparency Rules and the Mauritius Convention’ 2016 Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration 271–
• N Jansen Calamita, ‘Most-Favoured-Nation Clauses and the Centrality and Limits of General Principles’ in A Tanzi and A Gattini (eds), General Principles and Investor-State Arbitration (forthcoming Routledge 2017).
• N Jansen Calamita and Adam Al-Sarraf, ‘The Development of Arbitration in Iraq: International Commercial Arbitration, the ICSID Convention and Iraq’s Investment Treaties’ (forthcoming BCDR International Arbitration Review 2017)
• N Jansen Calamita and Elsa Sardinha, ‘The Bifurcation of Jurisdictional and Admissibility Objections in Investor-State Arbitration’ (2017) 16 The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 44–70.
• Elsa Sardinha, ‘The Impetus for the Creation of an Appellate Mechanism’ (forthcoming, 2017) 32(3) ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal.
• Elsa Sardinha, ‘The New EU-Led Approach to Investor-State Arbitration: The Investment Tribunal System in CETA and EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement’ (forthcoming, 2017) 32(3) ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal.
• Elsa Sardinha, ‘Towards a New Horizon in Investor-State Dispute Settlement? Reflections on the Investment Tribunal System in CETA’ (forthcoming, 2017) 54 Canadian Yearbook of International Law.
• Elsa Sardinha, ‘Party-Appointed Arbitrators No More: The New EU-Led Investment Tribunal System in CETA and the EU-Vietnam FTA as an (Imperfect?) Response to the Legitimacy Concerns in Investor-State Arbitration’ (forthcoming, 2018) 18(1) The Law & Practice of International Courts & Tribunals.
• Elsa Sardinha, ‘The Right to Regulate: Towards a New Regulatory Paradigm under Recent Free Trade Agreement Investment Chapters?’ in International Challenges in Investment Law and Arbitration (forthcoming Routledge Research in International Economic Law Series 2017)