Edited by Dr. Stephan W. Schill
Investment treaty arbitration has a hybrid nature combining public international law (as regards its substance) with elements of international commercial arbitration (mainly as regards procedure). However, in essence and function it deals with a special, internationalised form of judicial review
of governmental conduct that is more akin to the judicial control of governmental action provided for by national administrative and constitutional law than to either classic inter-state dispute resolution or international commercial arbitration.
This has been recognised in some academic
writing and several awards, where reference to national administrative law concepts and principles of international law-based judicial review of governmental action, such as international trade or human rights law, is used to help specify and apply the open-ended concepts of investment treaties.
In-depth conceptualization is however often lacking. The current study is the first, pioneering effort to bring these under-developed ad hoc references to comparative and international administrative law concepts into a deeper theoretic and systematic framework.
The book thus intends to
develop a 'bridge' between treaty-based international investment arbitration and comparative administrative law on both a theoretical and practical level. The major obligations in investment treaties (indirect expropriation, fair and equitable treatment, national treatment, umbrella/sanctity of
contract clause) and major procedural principles will be compared with their counterpart in comparative public law, both on the domestic as well as international level. That 'bridge' will allow international investment law to benefit from the comparative public law experience, which could enhance
its legitimacy, its political acceptance, and its ability to develop more finely-tuned interpretations of central treaty obligations.
Part I - Concepts and Foundations
1. Stephan W. Schill: International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law - An Introduction
2. Giacinto della Cananea: Minimum Standards of Procedural Justice in Administrative Adjudication
3. Benedict Kingsbury and Stephan W. Schill:
Public Law Concepts to Balance Investors' Rights with State Regulatory Actions in the Public Interest - The Concept of Proportionality
Part II - Investor Rights in Comparative Perspective
4. Markus Perkams: The Concept of Indirect Expropriation in Comparative Public Law - Searching
for Light in the Dark
5. Stephan W. Schill: Fair and Equitable Treatment, the Rule of Law, and Comparative Public Law
6. Helge Elisabeth Zeitler: Full Protection and Security
7. Ali Ehsassi: Cain & Abel: Congruence and Conflict in the Application of the Denial of Justice Principle
8.
Jürgen Kurtz: The Merits and Limits of Comparativism: National Treatment in International Investment Law and the WTO
9. Freya Baetens: Discrimination on the Basis of Nationality: Determining Likeness in Human Rights and Investment Law
10. Stephan W. Schill: Umbrella Clauses as Public Law
Concepts in Comparative Perspective
11. Abba Kolo: Transfer of Funds: The Interaction between the IMF Articles of Agreement and Modern Investment Treaties: A Comparative Law Perspective
Part III - Comparative Administrative and Comparative Constitutional Law on Selected Issues
12.
Irmgard Marboe: State Responsibility and Comparative State Liability for Administrative and Legislative Harm to Economic Interests
13. Hector A. Mairal: Legitimate Expectations and Informal Administrative Representations
14. Kim Talus: Revocation and Cancellation of Concessions, Operating
Licenses and Other Beneficial Administrative Acts
15. Catherine Donnelly: Public-Private Partnerships: Award, Performance and Remedies
16. Christina Binder and August Reinisch: Economic Emergency Powers: A Comparative Law Perspective
17. Federico Lenzerini: Property Protection and
Protection of Cultural Heritage
18. Christian Tietje and Karoline Kampermann: Taxation and Investment: Constitutional Law Limitations on Tax Legislation in Context
19. Paul B. Stephan: Comparative Taxation Procedure and Tax Enforcement
Part IV - Dispute Settlement, Arbitral Procedure,
and Remedies
20. Gus Van Harten: Investment Treaty Arbitration, Procedural Fairness, and the Rule of Law
21. Chester Brown: Procedure in Investment Treaty Arbitration and the Relevance of Comparative Public Law
22. William Burke-White and Andreas von Staden: The Need for Public Law
Standards of Review in Investor-State Arbitrations
23. Anne van Aaken: Primary and Secondary Remedies in International Investment Law and National State Liability: A Functional and Comparative View
24. Borzu Sabahi and Nicholas J. Birch: Comparative Compensation for Expropriation
25.
Alessandra Asteriti and Christian J. Tams: Transparency and Representation of the Public Interest in Investment Treaty Arbitration
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Stephan Schill is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He is admitted to practice as a "Rechtsanwalt" in Germany and as an Attorney-at-law in New York. He was formerly the international arbitration law clerk to the
Honorable Charles N. Brower, 20 Essex Street Chambers, London. As such, he worked on international commercial and investor-State disputes under various arbitral rules, including ICSID, NAFTA, ICC, SCC, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules. Prior to that he was a Research Scholar at New York University School of
Law and a law clerk to Judge Abdul G. Koroma at the International Court of Justice. He holds a Ph.D./Dr. iur. from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main that he prepared under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Armin von Bogdandy. He authored several articles in leading international law
journals and a book on The Multilateralization of International Investment Law.
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International Investment Law for the 21st Century - Edited by Dr. Christina Binder, Ursula Kriebaum, August Reinisch and Dr. Stephan Wittich
The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law - Edited by Peter Muchlinski, Dr. Federico Ortino and Christoph Schreuer
Making Sense - Margot Northey and Joan McKibbin
