The Evolving International Investment Regime

Professor Alvarez is the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University Law School. At NYU he teaches courses on international law, foreign investment, and international organizations. He is also serving as special adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on a pro bono basis. Professor Alvarez was formerly the Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and the executive director of the Center on Global Legal Problems at Columbia Law School, a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, an associate professor at the George Washington University's National Law Center, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center.Karl P. Sauvant is a Resident Senior Fellow and Founding Executive Director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. Before that, he was Director of UNCTAD's Investment Division. He is the author of, or responsible for, a substantial number of publications. In 2006, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the European International Business Academy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975.

• INTRODUCTION; THE CONTEXT; PART I - STAKEHOLDER EXPECTATIONS IN THE INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT REGIME; ROBERTO ECHANDI; HOWARD MANN; PETER T. MUCHLINSKI; STANIMIR A. ALEXANDROV; PART II - REFORMING THE FDI REGIME: AVENUES TO CONSIDER; SUSAN D. FRANCK; PETROS C. MAVROIDIS; JOHN COBAU; NASSIB G. ZIADE; JOHN H. DUNNING AND SARIANNA M. LUNDAN; RAINER GEIGER*; BRIGITTE STERN; JAMES ZHAN, JORG WEBER AND JOACHIM KARL; PART III - REPORT OF THE RAPPORTEUR; REPORT OF THE RAPPORTEUR; ANDREA K. BJORKLUND

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