Discussion of Martins Paparinskis’s International Minimum Standard and Fair and Equitable Treatment

This week we will be hosting a discussion of Martins Paparinskis’ book The International Minimum Standard and Fair and Equitable Treatment, recently published by Oxford University Press. Martins  is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Prior to this he was a Hauser Research Scholar at NYU Law School and completed his MJur and doctoral work in Oxford. It has been a pleasure and a delight to have him first as a graduate student and then as a colleague in Oxford for so many years. He will be taking up a Lectureship at University College London in the coming academic year.  In addition to this book, he has published a number of articles and book chapters on the law of foreign investment protection with much of his work showing how that law interacts with general principles of international law. Last year he compiled Basic Documents on International Investment Protection (Hart). His monograph and thoughts on the topic will be subjected to careful scrutiny this week by Sir Frank Berman (Oxford), Federico Ortino (King’s College, London), and Anthea Roberts (Columbia Law School/London School of Economics). We are grateful to all four for agreeing to have this discussion here.