Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2018

Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Since joining CCSI in 2008, she established and now oversees the three areas of focus for CCSI: investments in extractive industries, investments in land and agriculture, and investment law and policy. She specializes in extractive industries, foreign investment, corporate responsibility, and integrated economic development. She received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, and earned her J.D. and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, where she was a James Kent Scholar and recipient of the Parker School Certificate in International and Comparative Law.Lise Johnson is the Investment Law and Policy Head at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Her work at CCSI centers on analyzing investment treaties and treatybased investor-state arbitrations, and examining the implications those instruments and cases have for host countries' domestic policies and sustainable development strategies. In addition, she concentrates on key institutional and procedural aspects of the investment law framework, including efforts to increase transparency in and legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement. She has a B.A. from Yale University, J.D. from University of Arizona, LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and is admitted to the bar in CaliforniaJesse Coleman is a legal researcher for the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Her work at CCSI focuses on investment law and policy, natural resources, and the intersection between human rights and sustainable development. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor of Laws from Trinity College Dublin, and holds a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, where she specialized in international law. Her research while at Cambridge focused on the interplay between international human rights law and land-based investment.

• 1. Global Investment Trends and Policies at Times of Uncertainty - James X. Zhan2. Taxation of International Investments: The Shifting Landscape - José Antonio Ocampo and Tommaso Faccio3. Institutional Developments in Investment Law and Policy - Jane Kelsey4. 2018 Developments in Home State Foreign Direct Investment Policies - Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Sara L. Seck, and Adebayo Majekolagbe5. New Developments on Investment Facilitation - Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder and Sofia Baliño6. Trends and Developments in the Political Risk and Structured Credit Insurance Market 2018 - Julie Martin7. International Investment Agreements 2018: A Review of Trends and New Approaches - Jesse Coleman, Lise J. Johnson, Nathan Lobel, and Lisa E. Sachs8. Recent Developments in ISDS: Jurisdiction and Admissibility-Procedure and Conduct - Catharine Titi9. Developments in Investment Treaty Arbitration in 2018 - Jarrod Hepburn10. Environment and Environmental Protection - Kyla Tienhaara11. Investment, ISDS, and Intellectual Property: 2018 - Susan K. Sell12. Recent Legal and Policy Developments Regarding the Interactions between Foreign Investment and Trade - Maria Laura Marceddu and Federico Ortino13. Investor-state Arbitration in the Extractive Industries 2018 - Zoe Phillips Williams14. Land in International Investment Law and Dispute Settlement: Developments in 2018 - Thierry Berger and Lorenzo Cotula15. Climate Change and the International Investment Regime: A Year in Review - Rachel Denae Thrasher16. International Investment Law and Policy: Overview of 2018 Developments in Africa - Mouhamadou Madana Kane17. Developments in International Investment Law in Asia in 2018: CPTPP, New BIT Programmes, and Human Rights in InvestmentArbitral Jurisprudence - Diane A. Desierto18. Developments in International Investment Law and Policy in the European Union - Catharine Titi19. Trends in Investment Law and Policy in Latin America - Facundo Pérez-Aznar20. North American Investment Law and Policy: 2018 - Manuel Pérez-Rocha21. Missing in Action: General Public Policy Exceptions in Investment Treaties - Wolfgang Alschner and Kun Hui22. The Great Asymmetry and the Rule of Law in International Investment Arbitration - Alessandra Arcuri23. Policy Space for Jobs and Clean Energy: Trade, Investment Rules, and Local Content Requirements in Renewable Energy Policies - Rachel Denae Thrasher24. International Investment Law and State-owned Entities: Recurrent Key Issues and Future Directions - Mihaela Maria Barnes25. Obligations, Control, and Further Training - Iina Tornberg