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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.
List of contents
Bruno Sousa Rodrigues, UNCITRAL and the Governance of International Investments.- Rosario Ojinaga Ruiz and Maria Lina Leiva, EU as a Driver in the Judicialization Process of International Investment Disputes: ISDS Reform and EU Judicial System.- Eleni-Amalia Giannakopoulou and Marios Tokas, Compulsory Optionality: International Standardizing Bodies as Transnational Actors in International Investment Law.- Krystle Baptista, New Actors in Investment Arbitration: The Legitimate Government.- Ioannis Prezas, International Non-investment Courts and Tribunals as Transnational Actors in International Investment Law and Arbitration?.- Fulvio Maria Palombino and Gustavo Minervini, Apropos of the External Precedent: Judicial Cross-Pollination between Investment Tribunals and International Courts.- Ksenia Polonskaya, Domestic Courts as Transnational Actors in International Investment Law: A Canadian Perspective.- Aikaterini Florou, 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.
About the author
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.
