The Multilateralization of International Investment Law

Stephan W. Schill is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Formerly he assisted the Honorable Charles N. Brower of 20 Essex Street Chambers, London, in international commercial and investor-State arbitrations under various arbitral rules and clerked at the International Court of Justice. He is admitted to the bars in Germany and New York.

• 1. Introduction: globalization and international investment law; 2. The dynamics of multilateralism and bilateralism in international investment relations; 3. Treaty negotiation and multilateralization of international investment law; 4. Multilateralization through most-favoured-nation treatment; 5. Multilateralization and corporate structuring; 6. Multilateral enforcement of international investment law; 7. Multilateralization through interpretation: producing and reproducing coherence in investment jurisprudence; 8. Conclusion: multilateralization-universalization-constitutionalization.

'Dr Schill's thesis must be praised both for the thorough analysis of its subject matter and for the wealth of information it provides on the current state of international investment law.' Transnational Dispute Management