Table of Contents

I. Background and Introduction
1: The Object and Purpose of International Investment Law
2: The History of International Investment Treaties
3: The Evolving Context of Investment Rules - The Sources of International Investment Law
4: Model Treaties
5: Interpreting Investment Treaties
II. Investors and Investments Covered by International Agreements
6: Nationals and Companies
7: The Concept of Investment
8: Application of International Agreements in Time
III. Investment Contracts
9: Investment Contracts
IV. Admission and Establishment
10: Admission and Establishment
V. Principles of Protection - Substantive Standards
11: Fair and Equitable Treatment
12: Full Protection and Security
13: Protection from Expropriation
14: Protecting Contractual Rights: The Umbrella Clause
15: Access to Courts, Denial of Justice, Fair Procedure
16: Armed Conflict and Emergencies
17: Preserving Existing Rights
18: Protection Against Arbitrary Treatment and Discrimination
19: National Treatment
20: Most Favoured Nation Treatment
21: Transfer of Payments, Convertibility, Exchange Rights
VI. Questions of State Responsibility
22: Attribution: Provinces, Municipalities
23: The Role of State Entities
VII. Political Risk Insurance
24: MIGA
25: National Insurance Programmes
26: Private Investment Insurance
VIII. Settling Investment Disputes
27: State v. State Disputes
28: Investor v. State Disputes
Annexes
Four Model Treaties: US, UK, France, Germany
ICSID Convention
NAFTA Ch. XI
ECT

About the Author

Rudolf Dolzer has presented a new concept for a Framework Agreement on the Promotion of German-Russia Energy Relations in April 2011 in Omsk at the Annual Meeting of the German-Russian Raw Materials Forum. He has co-chaired the Forum's Working Group on International Relations since 2008. He was Vice Rector at the University of Mannheim and has taught at the Southern Methodist University in Texas, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the Michigan Law
School, at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, at the Yale Law School, at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. From 1978 to 1992, he was a part-time journalist
at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, thereafter he was Director General at the Office of Federal Chancellor Kohl. He later served as a member of three Commissions of Inquiry of the German Parliament. From 1996 to 2009, he was Director of the Institute of International Law at the University of Bonn. Professor Christoph Schreuer is a counsel at Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte, and Professor Emiterius at the University of Vienna.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition The expansion of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and regional agreements dealing with investment, and the increasing number of awards applying them in disputes between foreign investors and host States makes this book quite timely. Although there have been several efforts to present the subject-matter in a single volume, this is the first successful attempt to do so in clear and authoritative terms, maintaining an
appropriate balance between conciseness and completeness...this work not only deals with "principles" as the title indicates, but systematically and meticulously covers all the issues that have presented
themselves in this subsector of international law.'
Giorgio Sacerdoti, Italian Yearbook of International Law, Vol XVIII
`This book is an exceptional guide for practitioners and students alike and an essential reference tool for investment arbitration cases.'
Crina Baltag - Queen Mary, University of London
`Clearly written and take[s] a comprehensive approach to the major issues and principles of international investment law...a useful guide not only for novices in the field of investment law, but also for experienced practitioners since [it] represent[s] a powerful reference tool...[The book is] equally useful for counsel representing investors and states, arbitrators and negotiators of investment treaties, as [it] contain[s] excellent information and
references, as well as pertinent commentaries and stimulating ideas.'
Crina Baltag, British Yearbook of International Law