Public Actors in International Investment Law

This open access book focuses on public actors with a role in the settlement of investment disputes. Traditional studies on actors in international investment law have tended to concentrate on arbitrators, claimant investors and respondent states. Yet this focus on the “principal” players in investment dispute settlement has allowed a number of other seminal actors to be neglected. This book seeks to redress this imbalance by turning the spotlight on the latter. From the investor’s home state to domestic courts, from sub-national governments to international organisations, and from political risk insurance agencies to legal defence teams in national ministries, the book critically reviews these overlooked public actors in international investment law.

Chrysoula Mavromati and Sarah Spottiswood, Voices that Shape Investment Treaties: Inside, Outside and Among States.- Tarcisio Gazzini, Beyond Protection: The Role of the Home State in Modern Foreign Investment Law.- Aniruddha Rajput, National Courts as Actors in Investment Arbitration.- Phoebe D. Winch, State Immunity and the Execution of Investment Arbitration Awards.- Kendra Magraw, Trends and ISDS Backlash related to Non-Disputing Treaty Party Submissions.- Rebecca E. Khan, Not a Third Party: Home State Participation as a Matter of Right in Investment Treaty Arbitration.- Carlos José Valderrama, Investor-State Dispute Prevention: The Perspective of Peru.- Federica Cristani, The Role of Sub-Regional Systems in Shaping International Investment Law-making: The Case of the Visegrád Group.- Thomas Nektarios Papanastasiou, The Implications of Political Risk Insurance in the Governance of Energy Projects: ?he Case of Japan’s Public Insurance Agencies.- Pascale Accaoui Lorfing, Screening ofForeign Direct Investment and the States’ Security Interests in Light of the OECD, UNCTAD and Other International Guidelines. 

Catharine Titi is a Research Associate Professor (tenured) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)-CERSA, University Paris II Panthéon-Assas. She holds a PhD (Dr. iur.) from the University of Siegen in Germany. In 2016, she received the prestigious Smit-Lowenfeld Prize of the International Arbitration Club of New York for the best article published in the field of international arbitration.