The relationship between scholarship and practice in international law is unusually porous, yet still poorly understood.  Scholarship not only informs practice – frequently being cited in international legal texts and itself constituting a secondary source of law – but is likewise shaped by the demands and experiences of practice. International law scholars routinely serve as judges, drafters, and…

ISDS emerged in the twentieth century to empower foreign investors to assert legal claims against host states without the intervention of their home state. But this understanding of international investment law (IIL) – investor rights and host state duties – is now a relic of the past. Yet because of their current asymmetrical nature, ISDS and IIL do…

  The United States President and the Chinese Vice Prime Minister signed a deal dubbed as the “Phase One Trade Agreement” (“the Agreement”) on January 15, 2020. The Agreement withholds further escalation of the on-and-off trade war, which has dragged on for over 18 months between the US and China. The Agreement will likely lay a…