Table of Contents

General Introduction; Part I. International Investment Regulation: 1. International investment law: history, rules and procedures; 2. Mapping the challenges of ISDS reform; 3. Intersections of law and politics: legitimacy and the rule of law; Part II. The Internal Investment Regime of the EU: 4. The EU legal order and investment in the internal market; 5. 'International' investment in the EU: intra-EU agreements of Member States; 6. EU institutional framework: legal limitations to policy efficiency; Part III. The External Investment Regime of the EU: 7. Political context of the EU international investment reform; 8. EU standards in international investment treaties; 9. The Investment Court System: integrating the rule of (EU) law; 10. The EU and UNCITRAL: a Multilateral Investment Court; General Conclusion: the EU reform – between aspirations and reality.

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Examines the ways in which the EU is reforming the field of international investment law.

About the Author

Ivana Damjanovic is an interdisciplinary researcher and legal scholar. Her research areas include international investment law, EU law, and EU external trade and investment relations. She has a Ph.D. from the Australian National University and master's degrees in economics and law from University College Dublin and University of Zagreb. She is a qualified Australian lawyer. Since 2016, she has been teaching law at the University of Canberra, where she has been a full-time faculty since 2019. From 2004 to 2013 she was a member of the Croatian diplomatic service.

Reviews

'This is a comprehensive, policy-oriented study of the input of the European Union in the on-going struggle over the future direction of international investment law. Written with elegance and a critical eye on legal details, the book succeeds marvelously in the almost impossible task of bringing together and evaluating the different ideas underlying the various meanings of the 'rule of law' animating EU's internal and external policy as well as international investment law. It peaks in a sharp and realistic analysis of the prospects for the proposed International Investment Court. This is the best work that I have read on the law and politics and international investment law.' Martti Koskenniemi FBA, Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki, Emeritus