Transnational Actors in International Investment Law

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. UNCITRAL and the Governance of International Investments

   • Bruno Sousa Rodrigues

   Pages 1-18

3. EU as a Driver in the Judicialization Process of International Investment Disputes: ISDS Reform and EU Judicial System

   • Rosario Ojinaga Ruiz, Maria Lina Leiva

   Pages 19-44

4. Compulsory Optionality: International Standardizing Bodies as Transnational Actors in International Investment Law

   • Eleni-Amalia Giannakopoulou, Marios Tokas

   Pages 45-72

5. New Actors in Investment Arbitration: The Legitimate Government

   • Krystle Baptista

   Pages 73-103

6. International Non-investment Courts and Tribunals as Transnational Actors in International Investment Law and Arbitration?

   • Ioannis Prezas

   Pages 105-131

7. Apropos of the External Precedent: Judicial Cross-Pollination Between Investment Tribunals and International Courts

   • Fulvio Maria Palombino, Gustavo Minervini

   Pages 133-150

8. Domestic Courts as Transnational Actors in International Investment Law: A Canadian Perspective

   • Ksenia Polonskaya

   Pages 151-170

9. A Middle Path of ISDS Reform: The Principle of Comity as a Means of Strengthening the Role of National Courts in the Enforcement of Investment Arbitral Awards

   • Aikaterini Florou

   Pages 171-192

This book reviews for the first time some of the less frequently addressed actors in international investment law. Traditional studies concerning actors in international investment law have tended to focus on arbitrators, claimant investors and respondent states. This book explores transnational actors, such as UNCITRAL, the EU, international standardizing bodies, domestic and international courts and tribunals, etc., shedding light on their transnational activity and pluralistic role in international investment law.

• International investment law
• Investment arbitration
• International courts
• International tribunals
• Transnational actors
• International organizations
• ICSID
• World Bank
• UNCITRAL

• School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

  Anastasios Gourgourinis

Anastasios Gourgourinis is Lecturer in Public International Law at the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in International Economic Law. He is also a Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens. He holds an LL.B. and an LL.M from the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as an LL.M. (awarded with Distinction) and a Ph.D. from University College London. Anastasios has served in the past as Special Legal Advisor at Greece's Ministry for Development and Competitiveness, and the Ministry of State, advising on issues pertaining to investment, trade and state aid. Currently, he practices with the Athens Bar in Greece.

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