Foundations of Public International Law / Principles of International Investment Law

I. BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Object and Purpose of International Investment Law ; 2. The History of International Investment Treaties ; 3. The Evolving Context of Investment Rules - The Sources of International Investment Law ; 4. Model Treaties ; 5. Interpreting Investment Treaties ; II. INVESTORS AND INVESTMENTS COVERED BY INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS ; 6. Nationals and Companies ; 7. The Concept of Investment ; 8. Application of International Agreements in Time ; III. INVESTMENT CONTRACTS ; 9. Investment Contracts ; IV. ADMISSION AND ESTABLISHMENT ; 10. Admission and Establishment ; V. PRINCIPLES OF PROTECTION - SUBSTANTIVE STANDARDS ; 11. Fair and Equitable Treatment ; 12. Full Protection and Security ; 13. Protection from Expropriation ; 14. Protecting Contractual Rights: The Umbrella Clause ; 15. Access to Courts, Denial of Justice, Fair Procedure ; 16. Armed Conflict and Emergencies ; 17. Preserving Existing Rights ; 18. Protection Against Arbitrary Treatment and Discrimination ; 19. National Treatment ; 20. Most Favoured Nation Treatment ; 21. Transfer of Payments, Convertibility, Exchange Rights ; VI. QUESTIONS OF STATE RESPONSIBILITY ; 22. Attribution: Provinces, Municipalities ; 23. The Role of State Entities ; VII. POLITICAL RISK INSURANCE ; 24. MIGA ; 25. National Insurance Programmes ; 26. Private Investment Insurance ; VIII. SETTLING INVESTMENT DISPUTES ; 27. State v. State Disputes ; 28. Investor v. State Disputes ; ANNEXES ; Four Model Treaties: US, UK, France, Germany ; ICSID Convention ; NAFTA Ch. XI ; ECT

Rudolf Dolzer has presented a new concept for a Framework Agreement on the Promotion of German-Russia Energy Relations in April 2011 in Omsk at the Annual Meeting of the German-Russian Raw Materials Forum. He has co-chaired the Forum's Working Group on International Relations since 2008. He was Vice Rector at the University of Mannheim and has taught at the Southern Methodist University in Texas, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the Michigan Law School, at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, at the Yale Law School, at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. From 1978 to 1992, he was a part-time journalist at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, thereafter he was Director General at the Office of Federal Chancellor Kohl. He later served as a member of three Commissions of Inquiry of the German Parliament. From 1996 to 2009, he was Director of the Institute of International Law at the University of Bonn. Professor Christoph Schreuer is a counsel at Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte, and Professor Emiterius at the University of Vienna.

Review from previous edition The expansion of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and regional agreements dealing with investment, and the increasing number of awards applying them in disputes between foreign investors and host States makes this book quite timely. Although there have been several efforts to present the subject-matter in a single volume, this is the first successful attempt to do so in clear and authoritative terms, maintaining an appropriate balance between conciseness and completeness...this work not only deals with "principles" as the title indicates, but systematically and meticulously covers all the issues that have presented themselves in this subsector of international law. Giorgio Sacerdoti, Italian Yearbook of International Law, Vol XVIII