Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2009-2010

Submission policy Contributors Foreword by W. Michael Reisman Preface by the Editorial Committee PART ONE 1. Recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment, 2008/2009 Persephone Economou and Karl P. Sauvant 2. Trends in international investment agreements, 2008/2009: Review of the model bilateral investment treaties of Norway, South Africa and the United States Peter Muchlinski 3. International investment law and arbitration: 2008/2009 in review Ian A. Laird, Borzu Sabahi, Frédéric G. Sourgens and Sobia Haque 4. Using dynamic petroleum contract clauses to manage risk in volatile markets Erlend Bakken and Tonje P. Gormley PART TWO 5. Pren Nreka v. Czech Republic. The notion of investment under bilateral investment treaties: Does investment really mean "every kind of asset"? Emmanuelle Cabrol 6. The 2006 procedural and transparency-related amendments to the ICSID Arbitration Rules: model intentions, moderate proposals, and modest returns Jarrod Wong and Jason Yackee 7. Has the time come for an ICSID code of ethics for counsel? Carolyn B. Lamm, Chiara Giorgetti and Hansel T. Pham 8. Testing the procedural limits of the ICSID annulment regime in cases against Argentina Maria Vicien-Milburn and Yulia Andreeva 9. A proposed set of arbitration rules for weaker players in investor-state arbitration Lee Caplan 10. The Lisbon Treaty and the expansion of EU competence over foreign direct investment and the implications for investor-state arbitration Armand de Mestral 11. Latent grounds in investor-state arbitration: Do international investment agreements provide a new means to enforce intellectual property rights? Christopher S. Gibson 12. Property rights for foreign capital: sovereign debt and private direct investment in times of crisis Louis T. Wells 13. Emergency measures and international investment law: how far can states go? Anne van Aaken and Jürgen Kurtz 14. The importance of BITs for foreign direct investment and political risk insurance: revisiting the evidence Lauge Skovgaard Poulsen 15. Investment treaties through a different lens: a new global regime? Jeswald W. Salacuse 16. Toward normlessness: the ravage and retreat of neo-liberalism in international investment law Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah Special Section: Winning memorials from the 2009 foreign direct investment international moot competition (FDI Moot): Memorandum for Claimant: King's College London Memorandum for Respondent: Murdoch University