Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2010-2011, K. Sauvant (Ed.). Oxford University Press (2012)

摘要

International investment law has resolutely stepped out of obscurity. The increasing economic significance of foreign direct investment flows, the exponential growth of investment treaties (currently numbering approximately three thousand), and the rise in investor-state arbitrations are all well-documented. Investment law is also coming into its own as a field of serious academic study: it is the subject of stand-alone law school courses, conferences, and an ever-increasing number of books and journal articles.1 Established in 2008, the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment is at once a natural outgrowth of these developments and a significant force in pushing investment law scholarship and policy into a more mature phase.