Investors’ International Law (Paperback)

Summary of Contents Introduction Jean Ho (National University of Singapore) and Mavluda Sattorova (University of Liverpool, UK) 1. International Law's Opportunities for Investor Accountability Jean Ho (National University of Singapore) 2. The Foreign Investor as a Good Citizen: Investor Obligations to Do Good Mavluda Sattorova (University of Liverpool, UK) 3. Investors' International Law and its Asymmetries: The Case of Local Communities Lorenzo Cotula (International Institute for Environment and Development, UK) and Nicolas M Perrone (Universidad Andres Bello, Chile) 4. From Risk to Rights: Reorienting the Paradigms at the Heart of Corporate Legal Form and Investment Treaty Standards in Foreign Investment Governance Anil Yilmaz Vastardis (University of Essex, UK) 5. Investor Obligations in Investment Treaties: Missing Text or a Matter of Application? Prabhash Ranjan (South Asian University, India) 6. The Role of Soft Law Corporate Responsibilities in Defining Investor Obligations in International Investment Agreement Barnali Choudhury (University College London, UK) 7. Responding to Investor Misconduct: The Line Between Lawful and Unlawful Responses and Apportionment in Cases of Unlawful Responses Martin Andrew Jarrett (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany) 8. Counterclaims in Investment Arbitration: Is the Host State the Right Claimant? Tomoko Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) 9. Applying International Law to Corporations: The Limits to the Lessons Offered by the United States Experience with the Alien Tort Statute Lucas Roorda (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Julian G Ku (Hofstra University, USA) 10. Investor Obligations Amid Armed Conflict Jure Zrilic (University of Liverpool, UK) 11. Mapping Investors' Environmental Commitments and Obligations Priscilla Pereira de Andrade (UNIDROIT, Italy) and Nitish Monebhurrun (University Centre of Brasilia, Brazil) 12. Elevating Corruption to an International Tort Jose Daniel Amado (Miranda and Amado, Peru), Jackson Shaw Kern (Addis Law Group LLP, USA) and Martin Doe Rodriguez (Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Netherlands) 13. Conclusion Surya Deva (City University of Hong Kong)