International Investment Law and Arbitration: Commentary, Awards and other Materials

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of treaties, national legislation, cases and awards
List of abbreviations
1. The origins of investment protection and international investment law
2. Investment contracts and internationalisation
3. The metamorphosis of investment treaties
4. Investment dispute settlement
5. Jurisdiction, admissibility and parallel proceedings
6. Applicable laws
7. Arbitrators
8. Evidence
9. Provisional measures
10. Protected Investments
11. Protected investors
12. Fair and equitable treatment, and full protection and security
13. Contingent standards: national treatment and most-favoured nation treatment
14. Expropriation
15. Umbrella clauses
16. Defences
17. Remedies
18. Costs and legal fees
19. Challenging and enforcing awards, and the question of foreign state immunities
20. New directions in international investment law and arbitration
Index.

Chin Leng Lim is Professor of Law and a Member of Court and the Senate of the University of Hong Kong. He is Choh-Ming Li Professor-elect at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor at King's College London and practices as a barrister from chambers in London at Keating Chambers. He once served on a government international law counsel and with the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva.

Jean Ho is Assistant Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. She had previously practised international investment law and arbitration at Shearman and Sterling LLP. She is a Member of the BIICL's Investment Treaty Forum and an Expert on the UNIDROIT Working Group on Land Investment Contracts.

Martins Paparinskis is Reader in Public International Law and Director of Graduate Research Studies at University College London, Faculty of Laws. He is Book Review Editor of the Journal of World Investment and Trade, a Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, and a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Martinis Paparinskis is Reader in Public International Law at University College London, Faculty of Laws. He is the Book Review Editor of Journal of World Investment and Trade, a member of the Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and a conciliator of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.

Jean Ho is Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. She previously practised international investment law and arbitration at Shearman and Sterling LLP and now acts as counsel in investor–State disputes. She is a Member of the BIICL's Investment Treaty Forum, a Member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law, a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Asian Journal of International Arbitration, and an Expert on the UNIDROIT Working Group on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts.