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The case study of investment treaty arbitration provides an opportunity to examine whether and how the invocation of responsibility by a non-State actor has affected secondary rules of State responsibility. This article takes the analytical perspective of investors, capable of … [Read more...]

Over the past several decades, states have used international asset freezes with increasing frequency as a mechanism for promoting human rights abroad. Yet the international law governing this mechanism, which I refer to as ‘humanitarian financial intervention,’ … [Read more...]

Near the fiftieth anniversary of ICSID, the international organization of the World Bank Group specialized in international investment dispute settlement, the organization has become nearly synonymous with the field of international investment law.  But how and why this … [Read more...]

This article suggests the need for a richer intellectual history of seventeenth-century international law than that typically on offer—one more sensitive to humanist methods, literary texts, and aspects of embodied vulnerability that tend to be obscured as “law of … [Read more...]