Regulation of investment in the trade régime: from ITO to WTO -- Domestic, regional and multilateral investment liberalization -- Mode 3 of the GATS: a model for disciplining measures affecting investment flows? -- Labor standards and human rights: implications for international trade and investment -- Interactions between subsidies regulation and foreign investment, and the primacy of the international trade regime -- Environmental protection -- Technology transfer: regulatory issues and international investment agreements -- Sovereign wealth funds and political risk: new challenges in the regulation of foreign investment -- International tribunals as agents of harmonization -- Foreign acquisitions and national security: what are genuine threats? What are implausible worries? -- Public services, investment liberalization and protection -- The EU approach to investment -- Harmonization of rules on foreign investment.