International investment law

The OECD is a forum where treaty negotiators and experts from OECD and non-OECD countries work together to enhance common understanding of core treaty provisions and emerging legal issues and to improve outcomes of international investment treaties for governments and investors.

2020

Public consultation on business responsibilities and investment treaties

2019

5th Annual Investment Treaty Conference Agenda

2018

Consultation on appointing authorities and the selection of arbitrators in investor-state dispute settlement

Societal benefits and costs of International Investment Agreements

2017

Adjudicator compensation systems and investor-state dispute settlement

The balance between investor protection and the right to regulate in investment treaties: A scoping paper

Addressing the balance of interests in investment treaties: The limitation of fair and equitable treatment provisions to the minimum standard of treatment under customary international law

2016

State-to-State dispute settlement and the interpretation of investment treaties

The impact of investment treaties on companies, shareholders and creditors

The legal framework applicable to joint interpretive agreements of investment treaties

The impact of investment treaties on companies, shareholders and creditors”, OECD Business and Finance Outlook 2016, Chapter 8

2015

Investment Treaties over Time - Treaty Practice and Interpretation in a Changing World

2014

Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims: Analysis of Treaty Practice

Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss: Insights from Advanced Systems of Corporate Law

Investment Treaty Law, Sustainable Development and Responsible Business Conduct: A Fact Finding Survey

2013

Temporal validity of international investment agreements: a large sample survey of treaty provisions

Investment treaties as corporate law: Shareholder claims and issues of consistency

2012

Investor-state dispute settlement: A scoping paper for the investment policy community

Dispute settlement provisions in international investment agreements: A large sample survey

2011

Harnessing Freedom of Investment for Green Growth

Environmental concerns in international investment agreements: a survey

2010

Foreign state immunity and foreign government controlled investors

Intellectual property rights in international investment agreements

2008

International investment agreements: A survey of environmental, labour and anti-corruption issues

Definition of investor and investment in international investment agreements

Interpretation of the umbrella clause in investment agreements

A survey of environmental, labour and anti-corruption issues in international investment agreements

2007

The interaction between investment and services chapters in selected regional trade agreements [ French ]

Essential security interests under international investment law

2006

Novel features in recent OECD bilateral investment treaties

Improving the system of investor-state dispute settlement

Consolidation of claims: A promising avenue for investment arbitration

2005

Transparency and third party participation in investor-state dispute settlement procedures

Indirect Expropriation and the Right to Regulate in international investment law

Fair and equitable treatment standard in international investment law

Most-favoured-nation treatment in international investment law

2004

Relationships between international investment agreements

1998

Multilateral Agreement on Investment: Documents relating to the 1995-1998 Negotiations www.oecd.org/daf/mai

This database contains a large quantity of documents relating to the negotiations on a proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) between 1995 and 1998. It is designed to help interested parties gain a full understanding of the history and substance of these negotiations.

1967

The Protection of Foreign Property: Draft Convention and Resolution of the Council

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