International investment law is one of fastest-growing areas of international law, but it is plagued by the vagueness of many investors' rights and unpredictabl

Outlines a general theory of whether and how to include public interest concerns in the realm of international investment law.

International investment law is one of the most dynamic fields of international law, and yet it has been criticised for failing to strike a fair balance between

The book argues that international investment law is a structured body of law based on uniform principles of investment protection.

Jürgen Kurtz provides a theoretically grounded and doctrinally tractable framework to understand the relationship between international trade and investment la