International Investment Law Tag

[Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Exeter Law School (as of June 2026), and an Associate Fellow at the Academy of International Affairs Nordrhein-Westfalen in Bonn, Germany. He also serves as the Managing Editor of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Brill) and as Legal Advisor to the Moon Village Association] Introduction: The Report In...

[Saïda El Boudouhi is a professor at Université Paris 8. She has held academic positions across leading French and European institutions and contributes actively to contemporary debates on the evolution of public international law] Drawing from the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance (‘the Study’), the present post focuses on the reliance by investment...

[Frederic G. Sourgens is the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law at Tulane Law School and Director of the Tulane Center for Energy Law, and a practicing arbitration lawyer. He has acted as counsel and expert in complex cross‑border disputes] The recent study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance by Arif H. Ali, David L. Attanasio, Yarik...

[Francis Xavier, SC, PBM, FCIArb, C.Arb, is Rajah & Tann’s Regional Head of Disputes Group and is recognised as a leading disputes lawyer.  He is a past global President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2020) and also a Past President of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (2019). Matthew Koh is a partner at Rajah & Tann, based in Singapore. Matthew practices...

[Kiran Nasir Gore is an international disputes lawyer and academic whose +15 years of practice span commercial and investor‑State arbitration, public international law, and complex cross‑border litigation. She serves as counsel, arbitrator, and advisor to States, corporations, and international organizations] Amid geopolitical tensions, price fluctuations, and economic instability, States frequently employ monetary policies to regulate banking and financial matters and to...

[Kai-Chieh Chan is co-author of the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance. He holds master degrees from Sciences Po Paris (cum laude) and Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, and he is admitted in England and Wales] Introduction Nowadays, it is widely acknowledged that investors are well protected by investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) under the thousands of investment treaties in...

[David Attanasio is a Partner at Womble Bond Dickinson LLP based in Washington, DC, and a co-author of the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance. He has over a decade of experience in commercial and investment arbitration disputes, with particular expertise in Latin America–related matters] A recent study published by the British Institute of International...