The worm's view of history and the twailing machine / by C.L. Lim -- The liberal vision of the international law on foreign investment by / Kenneth J. Vandevelde -- Caveat investors : where do things stand now? / by Leon Trakman and David Musayelyan -- Reforming the system of international investment dispute settlement / by Gus Van Harten -- The paranoid style of investment lawyers and arbitrators : investment law norm entrepreneurs and their critics / by David Schneiderman -- The COMESA common investment area : substantive standards and procedural problems in dispute setlement / by Peter Muchlinski -- Lessons from the negotiations of the United Nations Code of Conduct on transnational corporations and related instruments / by Karl P. Sauvant -- India and investment protection / by Aniruddha Rajput -- China : US BIT megotiation and the emerging Chinese BIT 4.0 / by Wenhua Shan and Hongrui Chen -- Regulating foreign investment : Methanex revisited / by Kyla Tienhaara and Todd Tucker -- The new frontier : economic rights of foreign investors versus government policy space for economic development / by Howard Mann -- Giving arbitrators carte blanche : fair and equitable treatment in inveswtment treaties / by Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder - Is the umbrella clause not just another treaty clause? / by C.L. Lim -- Internationalisation and state contracts : are state contracts the future or the past? / by Jean Ho -- State capitalism and sovereign wealth funds : finding a "soft" location in international economic law / by Jiangyu Wang -- The many-headed hydra and laws that rage of gain, a chapter in conclusion / by C.L. Lim.