Rethinking International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)

Our work on Rethinking International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and Investor-State Dispute Settlement asks crucial questions about the actual - and ideal - role of international law in influencing and governing international investment. 

Relevant works include:

• Blog: Investor-State Dispute Settlement: What Are We Trying to Achieve? Does ISDS Get Us There? 
• Working Paper: Alternatives to Investor-State Dispute Settlement
• Policy Paper: Costs and Benefits of Investment Treaties: Practical Considerations for States (Spanish, Mandarin)
• Policy Paper: Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Public Interest and U.S. Domestic Law 
• Policy Paper: The TPP’s Investment Chapter: Entrenching, rather than reforming, a flawed system
• Brief: The Outsized Costs of Investor-State Dispute Settlement