Investment Protection Standards and the Rule of Law

This edited volume explores the connection between the rule of law and substantive standards of treatment in international investment agreements. It also analyses to what extent these standards of treatment can be understood as positive expressions of the rule of law.

August Reinisch, Professor of International and European Law, University of Vienna,Stephan W. Schill, Professor of International and Economic Law and Governance, University of Amsterdam

August Reinisch is Professor of International and European Law at the University of Vienna. He is a member of the International Law Commission, the Court of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and the Institut de Droit International. He is president of the Austrian Branch of the International Law Association, and former president of the German Society of International Law. Professor Reinisch has also served as an arbitrator in investment cases mostly under ICSID and UNCITRAL rules, and has provided expert opinions in the field.

Stephan W. Schill is Professor of International and Economic Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in international investment law and investor-State dispute settlement. He is admitted to the bar in Germany and New York, is a Member of the ICSID List of Arbitrators, and acts regularly as an arbitrator in investor-State arbitrations. He also serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of World Investment & Trade, and General Editor of ICCA Publications and the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration.