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1 LMM090: International Investment Law View Online A New Role for the WTO in International Investment Law: Public Interest in the Post Neoliberal Period - City Research Online (no date). Available at: Applying the Full Protection and Security Standard of International Investment Law to Digital Assets - City Research Online (no date). Available at: Bekker, Pieter (2013) The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) Proliferation on Demand for Investment Insurance: Reassessing Political Risk Insurance After the BIT Bang., ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal, 28(2). Available at: 280&site=ehost-live. Brower, Charles NSchill, Stephan W (2009) Is Arbitration a Threat or a Boon to the Legitimacy of International Investment Law?, Chicago Journal of International Law, 9(2), pp Available at: Burke-White, William W. (2007) Investment Protection in Extraordinary Times: The Interpretation and Application of Non-Precluded Measures Provisions in Bilateral Investment Treaties, Virginia Journal of International Law, 48. Available at: ction=journals&page=307. Chung, Olivia (2006) Lopsided International Investment Law Regime and Its Effect on the Future of Investor-State Arbitration, The, Virginia Journal of International Law, 47. Available at: ction=journals&page=953. Clearing a path through a tangled jurisprudence: most-favored-nation clauses and dispute settlement provisions in bilateral investment treaties (no date) The Yale journal of international law, 32(1). Available at: ev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=clearing+a+path+through+a+tangled+jurispr udence%3a+most-favored-nation+clauses+and+dispute+settlement+provisions+in+bilat eral+investment+treaties&rft.jtitle=the+yale+journal+of+international+law&rft.au=ves el%2c+scott&rft.date=2007&rft.pub=yale+university%2c+school+of+law&rft.issn=088 1/7

2 9-7743&rft.volume=32&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=125&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.external DocID= &paramdict=en-US. Collins, D. (2013a) National Treatment in Emerging Market Investment Treaties, SSRN Electronic Journal. doi: /ssrn Collins, D. (2013b) The BRIC states and outward foreign direct investment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Collins, D. and Dawsonera (2013) The BRIC states and outward foreign direct investment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: uk/oala/metadata&dest= actview/s Do BITs really work?: An evaluation of bilateral investment treaties and their grand bargain (no date) Harvard international law journal, 46(1). Available at: ev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=do+bits+really+work%3f%3a+an+evaluatio n+of+bilateral+investment+treaties+and+their+grand+bargain&rft.jtitle=harvard+int ERNATIONAL+LAW+JOURNAL&rft.au=Salacuse%2C+JW&rft.au=Sullivan%2C+NP&rft.date =2005&rft.pub=HARVARD+LAW+SCHOOL&rft.issn= &rft.eissn= &rft. volume=46&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=67&rft.epage=130&rft.externaldbid=n%2fa&rft.exter naldocid= &paramdict=en-us. Dolzer, R. (no date) Principles of International Investment Law. 2nd edn. Oxford University Press, Dolzer, R., Schreuer, C. and Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (2012) Principles of international investment law. Second edition. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. Available at: Environmental Impact Statements and Public Participation in International Investment Law - City Research Online (no date). Available at: FAIR AND EQUITABLE TREATMENT STANDARD UNCTAD 2012 (no date). Available at: Francioni, Francesco (2009) Access to Justice, Denial of Justice and International Investment Law., European Journal of International Law, 20(3). doi: /ejil/chp057. Franck, Susan D. (2009) Development and Outcomes of Investment Treaty Arbitration, Harvard International Law Journal, 50. Available at: on=journals&page=435. FRANCK, SUSAN D. (2011) The ICSID Effect? Considering Potential Variations in Arbitration Awards., Virginia Journal of International Law, 51(4). Available at: 2/7

3 696&site=ehost-live. Henckels, Caroline (no date) Indirect expropriation and the right to regulate: revisiting proportionality analysis and the standard of review in investor-state arbitration, Journal of international economic law, 15(1), pp Available at: How BRIC MNEs Deal with International Political Risk (no date). Available at: ICSID Annulment Committee Appointments: Too Much Discretion for the Chairman? (no date). Available at: OIA Kate M. Supnik (2009) MAKING AMENDS: AMENDING THE ICSID CONVENTION TO RECONCILE COMPETING INTERESTS IN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW, Duke Law Journal, 59(2), pp Available at: Kernaghan Webb (no date) Political risk insurance, CSR and the mining sector: An illustration of the regulatory effects of contracts. Emerald Group Publishing LimitedExport Development CorporationExport Development CorporationUniversity of TorontoHarvester WheatsheafOECD Investment Policy PerspectivesCornell University PressInternational Organization for StandardizationHalifax Initiative CoalitionParis School of EconomicsCambridge University PressMIGAMIGAInternational BooksCentre for Global Development, Brookings Institution PressOxford University PressPalgrave MacmillanMcGill Queen s University PressPalgrave MacmillanOxford University PressWorld BankOceana PublicationsWorld BankOxford University Press. doi: Key damage compensation issues in oil and gas international arbitration cases (no date) American University international law review, 24(3). Available at: t=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=key+damage+compe nsation+issues+in+oil+and+gas+international+arbitration+cases&rft.jtitle=america n+university+international+law+review&rft.au=abdala%2c+manuel+a&rft.da te= &rft.pub=american+university&rft.issn= x&rft.vol ume=24&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=539&rft.externaldbid=n%2fa&rft.ext ernaldocid= &paramdict=en-us. Kluwer Arbitration (no date). Available at: Kurtz, Jurgen (2010) Adjudging the Exceptional at International Investment Law: Security, Public Order and Financial Crisis, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 59. Available at: ction=journals&page=325. 3/7

4 Lowenfeld, Andreas F (2003) Investment agreements and international law, Columbia journal of transnational law, 42(1), pp Available at: Measuring gross disproportion in environmental precaution to establish regulatory expropriation and quantum of compensation in international investment arbitration (no date) European journal of law and economics. Available at: t=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=measuring+gross+dis proportion+in+environmental+precaution+to+establish+regulatory+expropriation+and+ quantum+of+compensation+in+international+investment+arbitration&rft.jtitle=eur opean+journal+of+law+and+economics&rft.au=collins%2c+david&rft.au=th omas%2c+philip&rft.date= &rft.issn= &rft.eissn= &rft.spage=1&rft.epage=19&rft_id=info:doi/ %2Fs &rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID= &paramdi ct=en-us. miga_convention_november_2010.pdf (no date). Available at: Mosoti, Victor (2005) Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Possibility of a Multilateral Framework on Investment at the WTO: Are Poor Economies Caught in Between?, Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, 26(1), pp Available at: Nadakavukaren Schefer, K. (2013a) International investment law: text, cases and Nadakavukaren Schefer, K. (2013b) International investment law: text, cases and Nadakavukaren Schefer, K. (2013c) International investment law: text, cases and materials. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Nadakavukaren Schefer, K. (2013d) International investment law: text, cases and Nadakavukaren Schefer, K. (2013e) International investment law: text, cases and Nadakavukaren Schefer, K. (2013f) International investment law: text, cases and materials. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Nadakavukaren Schefer, K. (2013g) International investment law: text, cases and Nadakavukaren Schefer, K. (2013h) International investment law: text, cases and Nadakavukaren Schefer, K. (2013i) International investment law: text, cases and materials. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 4/7

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6 t=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=the+emerging+civili zation+of+investment+arbitration.+%28penn+state+law+review+symposium%3a+buil ding+the+civilization+of+arbitration%29&rft.jtitle=penn+state+law+review& rft.au=bjorklund%2c+andrea+k&rft.date=2009&rft.pub=dickinson+school+of +Law&rft.issn= &rft.volume=113&rft.issue=4&rft.spage=1 269&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID= &paramdict= en-us. The future of bilateral investment treaties: a de facto multilateral agreement? (no date) Brooklyn journal of international law, 34(2). Available at: ev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=the+future+of+bilateral+investment+treaties %3A+a+de+facto+multilateral+agreement%3F&rft.jtitle=Brooklyn+Journal+of+Internatio nal+law&rft.au=chalamish%2c+efraim&rft.date= &rft.pub=brooklyn+law+sc hool&rft.issn= &rft.eissn= &rft.volume=34&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=30 3&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID= &paramdict=en-US. The inevitability of national treatment of foreign direct investment with increasingly few and narrow exceptions (no date) Cornell international law journal, 31(3). Available at: ev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=the+inevitability+of+national+treatment+of+ foreign+direct+investment+with+increasingly+few+and+narrow+exceptions&rft.jtitle=c ORNELL+INTERNATIONAL+LAW+JOURNAL&rft.au=Wallace%2C+D&rft.au=Bailey%2C+DB &rft.date=1998&rft.pub=cornell+int+law+journal&rft.issn= &rft.eissn= &rft.volume=31&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=615&rft.epage=630&rft.externalDBID=n %2Fa&rft.externalDocID= &paramdict=en-US. United States Draft Model (no date). Available at: University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review (no date). Available at: collection=journals&page=1. Vandevelde, K. (2005) A brief history of international investment agreements, U.C. Davis journal of international law & policy, 12. Available at: ev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=journal&rft.jtitle=u.c.+davis+journal+of+international+law+% 26+policy&rft.pub=School+of+Law%2C+University+of+California&rft.externalDocID=ssj &paramdict=en-US. WAIBEL, MICHAEL (2007) Two Worlds of Necessity in ICSID Arbitration: CMS and LG&E, Leiden Journal of International Law, 20(3), pp Available at: World Investment Report 2014 (no date). Available at: WYTHES, ANNIKA (no date) Investor-State Arbitrations: Can the Fair and Equitable Treatment Clause Consider International Human Rights Obligations?, Leiden Journal of 6/7

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