Analogies in International Investment Law and Arbitration

Valentina Vadi is Reader (Associate Professor) in International Economic Law at Lancaster University. She is the author of Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration (2012) and Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Cambridge, 2014).

• Introduction; Part I. Comparative Reasoning and International Investment Law: 1. Comparative law, methods and reasoning; 2. International investment law and arbitration; 3. Comparative reasoning and international investment law; Part II. Analogies in Investment Treaty Arbitration: 4. Micro-comparisons in investment treaty arbitration; 5. Macro-comparisons in investment treaty arbitration; 6. Comparative reasoning in international investment law and arbitration: challenges and prospects; Conclusions.

'Through a masterfully crafted analysis, Vadi guides the readers through the intricacies of this topic, investigating the tensions between the concept of legal culture and the 'invisible college of international lawyers', and ultimately reminding international lawyers that the use of analogies and paradigms is not to be regarded simply as an inconsequential academic pursuit, but has implications of considerable magnitude.' Niccolò Ridi, British Yearbook of International Law