International Investment Law and the Pandemic

Antonino Alì is associate professor of international law at the University of Trento. He is an expert member of the Core Group ‘Golden Power’ of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers.Sondra Faccio is associate professor of international law at the University of Trento and attorney at law. Marco Pertile is professor of international law at the University of Trento and lecturer at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po University.

• Notes on EditorsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAntonino Alì, Sondra Faccio, and Marco Pertile1 Public Emergencies and Investment Law before the Pandemic: Past Emergencies and Lessons LearnedPia Acconci2 The Impact of the Pandemic on the Reform of Investment Treaty StandardsTarcisio Gazzini and Valentina Vadi3 The Impact of the Pandemic on the isds ReformKsenia Polonskaya4 Foreign Direct Investment and Geoeconomic Risk: Sketching the Contours of an Emerging ConceptJens Hillebrand Pohl and Mikael Wigell5 Controlling Foreign Direct Investment in the Wake of the covid Pandemic: Enhanced and Supplementary Screening Procedures among EU Member StatesAntonino Alì6 Preventing Unwanted Acquisitions before and after the covid CrisisFrancesco Salerno and Marco Grantaliano7 Full Protection and Security and the covid-19 PandemicSebastián Mantilla Blanco8 Revisiting the fet Standard and the Right to Regulate in Times of Crisis: The Notion of Stability in an Assessment of Legitimate ExpectationsYulia Levashova9 Indirect Expropriation in the Context of the Pandemic: Confronting Investment Treaty Provisions with covid-Related Regulatory MeasuresNiccolò Zugliani10 Responses to the covid-19 Pandemic and Customary Law Defences: Force Majeure and the State of NecessityDavid Collins11 State Defences under International Investment AgreementsSilvina González Napolitano12 Scientific Knowledge and Domestic Regulatory Measures: Perspectives from the covid PandemicSondra Faccio13 Questions of Public Health before Investment Tribunals: Can Amici Curiae Play a Useful Role?Avidan Kent and Jamie Trinidad14 Remarks on Procedural Issues concerning Scientific and Technical Evidence in Investment ArbitrationGian Maria FarnelliSelected BibliographyIndex