With the growth of the global economy over the past two decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) laws, at both the national and international levels, have under

This book shows how the reform in investment regulation contributes to a broader attempt to transform the international economic order.

International investment law is in transition. Whereas the prevailing mindset has always been the protection of the economic interests of individual investors,

Papers from the second Columbia International Investment Conference, held Oct. 30-31, 2007, at Columbia University--Acknowledgements.

Traditionally, international investment law was conceptualised as a set of norms aiming to ensure good governance for foreign investors, in exchange for their c