“Sustainable development and IIAs: from objective to practice” by Markus Gehring and Avidan Kent, in eds. Armand de Mestral and Céline Lévesque, Improving International Investment Agreements (Routledge, 2013)
This book presents the reflections of a group of researchers interested in assessing whether the law governing the promotion and protection of foreign investment reflects sound public policy. Whether it is the lack of “checks and balances” on investor rights or more broadly the lack of balance between public rights and private interests, the time is ripe for an in-depth discussion of current challenges facing the international investment law regime.