New Frontiers for EU Investment Policy

Prof. Marc Bungenberg is Director of the Europa-Institut and a professor of public law, European law, public international law and international economic law at Saarland University/Germany as well as permanent visiting professor at the University of Lausanne/Switzerland. His main fields of research are European law (Common Commercial Policy, public procurement and state aid law) and international economic law, particularly international investment and WTO law, including trade remedies.Prof. August Reinisch has been a professor of international and European law at the University of Vienna since 1998. He currently serves as Head of the Section of International Law and International Relations and as Director of the LL.M. Program in International Law. He is a member of the International Law Commission, a member of the Institut de droit international, President of the Austrian Branch of the ILA and was President of the German Society of International Law. He has served as arbitrator in investment cases mostly under ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules.

• Preface.- Challenges Resulting from the EU’s Participation in International Dispute Settlement.- Reform of Substantive Standards in a Multilateral Instrument and the Rule of Law.- Decentral EU Investment Policy: Convergence, Divergence and EU-Plus.- The Institutional Design of an MIC: Why the proposed MIC fails to address the real concerns.- Modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty: A View from the Inside.- The Substantive Protection of intra-EU Investors under International Investment Law and EU Law: Convergence and Divergence on the Protection of Property and Legitimate Expectations.- Enforcement (Deficits) of Substantive Investment Standards under EU Law.- Completing the Woodcut: On the Feasibility of an Intra-EU Investment Court.- Intra-EU Investor State Contracts after PL Holdings.- Intra-EU Investment Mediation as an Alternative?.