Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2009-2010

Dr. Karl P. Sauvant is the Resident Senior Fellow and Founding Executive Director of the Columbia University Program on International Investment and a Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. Dr. Sauvant has published extensively on issues related to economic development and FDI. His name is associated with some 150 United Nations publications on FDI over the past three decades.

"The Yearbook stands out for its interdisciplinary approach and for masterfully combining contributions from experts and scholars in the field of law, economics, public policy and political science, and for therefore providing a unique perspective on the problems related to foreign investment...The reader will find original ideas and proposed solutions of the current problems in the field of international investment law and policy." --Oleksiy Kononov, LL.M., S.J.D. Czech Yearbook of International Law, Volume III, 2012

• Submission policyContributorsForeword by W. Michael ReismanPreface by the Editorial Committee PART ONE 1. Recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment, 2008/2009Persephone Economou and Karl P. Sauvant2. Trends in international investment agreements, 2008/2009: Review of the model bilateral investment treaties of Norway, South Africa and the United StatesPeter Muchlinski3. International investment law and arbitration: 2008/2009 in reviewIan A. Laird, Borzu Sabahi, Frédéric G. Sourgens and Sobia Haque4. Using dynamic petroleum contract clauses to manage risk in volatile marketsErlend Bakken and Tonje P. Gormley PART TWO5. Pren Nreka v. Czech Republic. The notion of investment under bilateral investment treaties: Does investment really mean "every kind of asset"?Emmanuelle Cabrol6. The 2006 procedural and transparency-related amendments to the ICSID Arbitration Rules: model intentions, moderate proposals, and modest returnsJarrod Wong and Jason Yackee7. Has the time come for an ICSID code of ethics for counsel?Carolyn B. Lamm, Chiara Giorgetti and Hansel T. Pham8. Testing the procedural limits of the ICSID annulment regime in cases against ArgentinaMaria Vicien-Milburn and Yulia Andreeva9. A proposed set of arbitration rules for weaker players in investor-state arbitrationLee Caplan10. The Lisbon Treaty and the expansion of EU competence over foreign direct investment and the implications for investor-state arbitrationArmand de Mestral11. Latent grounds in investor-state arbitration: Do international investment agreements provide a new means to enforce intellectual property rights?Christopher S. Gibson12. Property rights for foreign capital: sovereign debt and private direct investment in times of crisisLouis T. Wells13. Emergency measures and international investment law: how far can states go? Anne van Aaken and Jürgen Kurtz14. The importance of BITs for foreign direct investment and political risk insurance: revisiting the evidence Lauge Skovgaard Poulsen15. Investment treaties through a different lens: a new global regime? Jeswald W. Salacuse16. 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 LondonMemorandum for Respondent: Murdoch University