The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which 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. 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.
1: James Zhan: Trends in Global FDI Flows and Policy Implications 2: Brooke Skartvedt Güven: Blended Finance in 2017: Advancing financing for development but not a panacea 3: Taylor St. John: Institutional Developments in Investment Law and Policy 4: Olabisi Akinkugbe and Sara Seck: 2017 Developments in Home and Host State Policy Responses to Foreign Direct Investment 5: Reji K. Joseph: Investment Facilitation Agreement in WTO: Where is it headed? 6: Julie Martin, Stephen Kay, and Mark van der Does: Trends and Developments in the Credit and Political Risk Market in 2017 7: Lise Sachs, Lise Johnson, Jesse Coleman, and Nathan Lobel: International Investment Agreements 2017: A Review of Trends and New Approaches 8: Catharine Titi: Recent Developments in ISDS: Jurisdiction and admissibility - Procedure and Conduct 9: Jarrod Hepburn: 2017 Developments in Investment Treaty Arbitration 10: Markus Krajewski: Human rights in international investment law: Recent trends in arbitration and treaty-making practice 11: Carlos Correa: Developments in international investment law in relation to intellectual property in 2017 12: Zoe Phillips Williams: Investor-State Arbitration in the Extractive Industries 13: Lorenzo Cotula and Thierry Berger: Farmland in international investment law and dispute settlement: Developments in 2017 14: Mouhamadou Madana Kane: International Investment Law & Policy: 2017 Developments in Africa 15: Diane Desierto: Expanding ISDS, Active National Courts, and Concluding Mega-Regional Treaties: 2017 Developments in International Investment Law in Asia 16: Catharine Titi: Developments in International Investment Law and Policy in the European Union 17: Facundo Perez: Recent Trends in Investment Law and Policy in Latin America 18: David Schneiderman: North America Investment Law and Policy: 2017 19: Tania Voon, Andrew Mitchell, and James Munro: Importing WTO general exceptions into International investment agreements: Proportionality, myths and risks 20: Antonin Sobek: The FET standard under CETA: A missed opportunity to restore the balance between private and public interests in the EU investment treaty landscape? 21: Crina Baltag: The Notion of Investor under the Energy Charter Treaty: The Latest Developments in the Spanish Solar Disputes 22: Avidan Kent: Policy coherence and the promotion of foreign direct investment in the renewable energy sector: Lessons from Europe 23: Alessandra Mistura: Integrating Civil Liability Principles into International Investment Law: A Solution to Environmental Damage Caused By Foreign Investors? 24: Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Edward Guntrip: Unanticipated Consequences: The Human Rights Implications of Bringing Sovereign Debt Disputes within Investment Treaty Arbitration 25: Amokura Kawharu and Luke Nottage: Has ISDS Gone Rogue for Australia and New Zealand? CPTPP (C3PO), RCEP (R2D2) and Beyond 26: Aveek Chakravarty: India's 2015 model bit against the backdrop of global ISDS reforms
Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Since joining CCSI in 2008, she established and now oversees the three areas of focus for CCSI: investments in extractive industries, investments in land and agriculture, and investment law and policy. She specializes in extractive industries, foreign investment, corporate responsibility, and integrated economic development. She received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, and earned her J.D. and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, where she was a James Kent Scholar and recipient of the Parker School Certificate in International and Comparative Law. Lise Johnson is the Investment Law and Policy Head at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Her work at CCSI centers on analyzing investment treaties and treatybased investor-state arbitrations, and examining the implications those instruments and cases have for host countries' domestic policies and sustainable development strategies. In addition, she concentrates on key institutional and procedural aspects of the investment law framework, including efforts to increase transparency in and legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement. She has a B.A. from Yale University, J.D. from University of Arizona, LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and is admitted to the bar in California Jesse Coleman is a legal researcher for the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Her work at CCSI focuses on investment law and policy, natural resources, and the intersection between human rights and sustainable development. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor of Laws from Trinity College Dublin, and holds a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, where she specialized in international law. Her research while at Cambridge focused on the interplay between international human rights law and land-based investment.
