The BRIC States and Outward Foreign Direct Investment

David Collins is a Senior Lecturer at the City Law School of City University where he teaches and researches in the field of international economic law, specializing in the law of the World Trade Organization and international investment law. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation at Maastricht University, a frequent Visiting Professor at ESADE Law School and a Current Development Editor for the Manchester Journal of International Economic Law. David has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law of Georgetown University, the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern, the University of Sydney Law School, the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong, and Columbia Law School. His research has attracted funding from the British Academy, the Society of Legal Scholars, and the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK.

• 1. Introduction: The BRIC States and Outward Foreign Direct Investment in Services ; 2. Brazil ; 3. Russia ; 4. India ; 5. China ; 6. The Multilateral Agreement on Investment in Services: Scope and Obligations ; 7. The Multilateral Agreement on Investment in Services: Exceptions ; 8. The Multilateral Agreement on Investment in Services: Dispute Settlement ; 9. Conclusion: The International Regulation of FDI in Services and the Limits of Multilateralism

Collins book covers the wide and fertile ground of international investment law with special reference to outward FDI from BRIC states. In the book Collins has showcased his encyclopedic knowledge of general international investment law as well as BRIC states particular international commitments in the field of FDI. The book will be of particular interest to scholars, students, and practitioners interested in the surge of outward FDI from the BRIC states and the relevant international investment legal framework governing this recent phenomenon. Moreover, if readers find the current fragmented international investment legal system excessively overlapping, inconsistent, and complicated, Collins proposal for the MAIS and the major provisions that it should contain certainly provide an essential reference point for further discussions ... the analysis in the book is excellent and sophisticated.