The Trouble with Foreign Investor Protection

…this monograph has to be an addition to any serious collection on international investment law. * Martin Jarrett, Heidelberg, Buchbesprechungen *The Trouble with Foreign Investor Protection is a sweeping critique of international investment law and the legal community that supports it. The book is strongest when van Harten points out in accessible language the deficiencies of what he considers a deeply flawed system. * Fabian Simon Eichberger, European Journal of International Law *The Trouble with Foreign Investor Protection does not only look at the treaties, individual cases and now all too commonly known accusations such as the ‘chilling effect’, secrecy or the lack of judicial oversight over ICSID cases but also at the greater picture - the ‘leading hawks of ISDS’ - and the sociological involvement and influence of individual arbitrators themselves. * Ralph Janik, Austrian Review of International and European Law *

Gus Van Harten is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, where he has taught for 12 years since completing his PhD and teaching at the London School of Economics. He specializes in international investment law and administrative law and is a leading academic critic of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), having written several books and dozens of academic articles on the subject.