Includes bibliographical references and index.

The protection of investments in armed conflicts / Christoph Schreuer -- The interaction between investment law and the law of armed conflict in the interpretation of full protection and security clauses / Gleider I. Hern©Łndez -- International criminal responsibility of transnational corporate actors doing business in zones of armed conflict / Philipp Ambach -- Investment tribunals and human rights treaties : a sociological perspective / Moshe Hirsch -- The interaction of international investment arbitration and the rights of indigenous peoples / Judith Levine -- The protection against expropriations in Venezuela : a right to property in theory? / Leonie Timmers -- International human rights and the interpretation of international investment treaties : constitutional considerations / N. Jansen Calamita -- International investment agreements and the emerging green economy : rising up to the challenge / Markus W. Gehring and Avidan Kent -- The role of international investment agreements in fostering sustainable development / Wolfgang Alschner and Elisabeth Tuerk -- Reservations, corporate social responsibility, and other mechanisms in support of sustainable development in Canada's model foreign investment promotion and protection agreement (FIPA) / Pierre-Olivier Savoie -- Deciding international investment agreement applicability : the development argument in investment / Diane A. Desierto -- International investment law and trade : the relationship that never went away / Mary E. Footer -- Reviewing the administration of domestic regulation in WTO and investment law : the international minimum standard as "one standard to rule them all"? / Anastasios Gourgourinis -- Are investment treaty standards flexible enough to meet the needs of developing countries? / Ursula Kriebaum -- Relevance of the host state's development status in investment treaty arbitration / Maria Gritsenko -- The investment regime under article 207 TFEU : a legal conundrum the scope of "foreign direct investment" and the future of intra-EU BITS / Friedl Weiss and Silke Steiner -- International investment and the European Union : an uneasy relationship / Thomas Henquet -- The new EU competence in foreign direct investment and intra-EU investment treaties : does the emperor have new clothes? / Rumiana Yotova -- International investment dispute settlement in the 21st century : does the preservation of the public interest require an alternative to the arbitral model? / Nicolas Hachez and Jan Wouters -- Non-investment obligations in investment treaty arbitration : towards a greater role for states? / Vid Prislan -- Fragmentation, consolidation and the future relationship between international investment law and general international law / Ralph Alexander Lorz.