Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law and Arbitration

Valentina Vadi is an Associate Professor in International Economic Law at Lancaster University. She was previously an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre for International and Regional Economic Law, New York University, and a Marie Curie Fellow at Maastricht University. Her main areas of research are in international economic law and international cultural law.

• 1. Cultural heritage in international law; 2. International investment law; 3. The World Heritage and foreign direct investment; 4. Underwater cultural heritage and foreign direct investment; 5. Cultural diversity, intangible heritage and foreign direct investment; 6. Indigenous cultural heritage and foreign direct investment; 7. Investing in culture.

'Vadi tells the story of how non-legal (economic) considerations could benefit from taking into account more of the law in this area, alongside its well-established values … equipped with a wonderfully rich set of cases … [this volume] will be influential in shaping the field for years to come.' Lucas Lixinski, Netherlands International Law Review