Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2020

Lisa E. Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Since joining CCSI in 2008, she established and now oversees CCSI's robust and interdisciplinary research portfolio and advisory work on the alignment of investment and investment policy with sustainable development goals. 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 J. 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 treaty-based investor-state arbitrations and examining the implications those instruments and cases have for host countries' domestic policies and sustainable development strategies. She has a B.A. from Yale University, J.D. from the University of Arizona, LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and is admitted to the bar in California.Jesse Coleman is a senior legal researcher at CCSI. She coordinates the Center's work at the intersection of human rights and investment law and works on two other focus areas at the Center: Investment Law & Policy and Land, Agriculture & Food Systems. Jesse holds a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, where she specialized in public international law. She received her Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Trinity College Dublin.Craig D. Gaver is the Managing Editor of the Investment Yearbook and an Associate in the Washington, DC office of Allen & Overy LLP. His legal practice comprises international arbitration, domestic litigation with an international nexus, and diverse issues arising under public international law. Mr. Gaver previously lived and worked in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. He holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School and a J.D. from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is a leading convenor and contributor to high-level global dialogue among scholars, community advocates, practitioners, the business community, and government concerning international investment and sustainable development. They contribute thought leadership and legal tools to influential global policymaking arenas focused on solving complex global challenges. They are regularly asked to present their cutting-edge research and activities in international fora and train policymakers, government negotiators, development practitioners, and civil society leaders.

• PART I: Year in Reviewa. Developments in Foreign Investment1: Sarah Bauerle Danzman: Trends in Foreign Direct Investment Flows and Policy in 20202: Chris Tassis and Celine Tan: Global Investment Trends Related to FDI and Investment Policy in the Context of Financing the Sustainable Development Agenda3: José Antonio Ocampo and Tommaso Faccio: Taxing Multinationals Post COVID-19: From Race to the Bottom to Progressive Taxation4: Kinda Mohamadieh: Institutional Developments in Investment Law and Policy5: Anthony VanDuzer and Penelope Simons: Developments in Home State Foreign Direct Investment Policies for Responsible Investment6: Sofia Baliño and Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder: Investment Facilitation Talks Among WTO Members Transition to Negotiations, Adapt to Shifting Ministerial Timeline7: Wouter PF Schmit Jongbloed: Decoupling and Political Risk: From Phase One to Coercive Economic Controls in United States-China Relationsb. Developments in Investor-State Arbitration8: Jarrod Hepburn: Developments in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Jurisdiction, Admissibility, Procedure and Conduct, and Provisional Measures9: Damien Charlotin: Developments in Investment Treaty Arbitrationc. Thematic Developments in Investment Policy10: Pekka Niemelä and Martin Björklund: Developments Related to Climate Change and Renewables11: Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss: ISDS and Intellectual Property in 2020: Protecting Public Health in the Age of Pandemics12: Silvia Steininger: Investment and Human Rights in the Shadow of the Pandemic: Recent Developments in 202013: Nicolás M. Perrone: Investment Law and Policy in the Extractive Industriesd. Regional Reports14: Sangwani Patrick Ng ambi: Investment Law and Policy: Overview of 2020 Developments in Africa15: Ibrahim M. Amir and Craig D. Gaver: Developments in International Investment Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa16: Trinh Hai Yen and Nguyen Thi Nhung: International Investment Law and Policy: Overview of 2020 Developments in Asia17: Hannes Lenk: Developments in International Investment Law and Policy in the European Union18: Fabio Morosini and Ely Caetano Xavier, Jr.: Developments in International Investment Law and Policy in the AmericasPart II: General Articles19: Gary Shaw and Lorena Guzmán-Díaz: Looking in on Transparency: A 2020 Review of States' Reactions to the UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency and the Mauritius Convention20: Rimdolmson Jonathan Kabre: Establishing an Advisory Centre on Investment Law: What Significance for African Countries?21: Clara Reichenbach: The Corruption Defence and the Jurisdictional Consequences of Corruption Allegations in International Law and Investment ArbitrationPart III: Book Reviews22: Josef Ostranský: 'Beyond Legal Imagination': Nicholas M. Perrone, Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Investors Play by Their Own Rules (OUP 2021)23: Luis Parada: Robin Broad and John Cavanaugh, The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed