International investment law is in a state of evolution. With the advent of investor-State arbitration in the latter part of the twentieth century - and its exponential growth over the last decade - new levels of complexity, uncertainty and substantive expansion are emerging. States continue to enter into investment treaties and the number of investor-State arbitration claims continues to rise. At the same time, the various participants in investment treaty arbitration are faced with increasingly difficult issues concerning the fundamental character of the investment treaty regime, the role of the actors in international investment law, the new significance of procedure in the settlement of disputes and the emergence of cross-cutting issues. Bringing together established scholars and practitioners, as well as members of a new generation of international investment lawyers, this volume examines these developments and provides a balanced assessment of the challenges being faced in the field.

国际投资法正处于一个发展阶段。随着投资者与国家仲裁在二十世纪后半叶的出现以及在过去十年中的指数增长，新的复杂性、不确定性和实质性扩张正在出现。各国继续缔结投资条约，投资者与国家之间的仲裁请求不断增加。与此同时，投资条约仲裁的各个参与者面临着越来越困难的问题，涉及到投资条约制度的基本特征、行为体在国际投资法中的作用，程序在解决纠纷中的新意义和交叉问题的出现。汇集了知名学者和从业人员，以及新一代国际投资律师的成员，本卷审查了这些发展，并提供了一个平衡的评估领域所面临的挑战。