Rethinking International Investment Law for Sustainable Development: The Role of Stakeholders

Sustainable Development is considered a key to solving global challenges, such as anthropogenic climate change and social inequality. Scholars acknowledge that foreign investment has a role to play in promoting sustainable development. Unfortunately, however, international investment law, the body of law that promotes and regulates foreign investments, has little on the promotion of sustainable development-oriented investments. This thesis argues that that can, and needs to, change. It examines the role that key stakeholders in the field of international investment (including host and home states, investors, arbitral tribunals, inter-governmental bodies, and NGOs) can play in making that change, why they should, and how.