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21 J. World Investment & Trade 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/jworldit21 and id is 1 raw text is: JOURNAL OF WORLD INVESTMENT & r BRILL TRADE 21 (2020) 1-6 N IJ H O F F brilLcomjwit Comparative and International Investment Law: Prospects for Reform - An Introduction Georgios Dimitropoulos Hamad Bin Khalifa University College of Law, Doha, Qatar gdimitropoulos@hbku.edu.qa Contemporary international investment law and arbitration are facing chal- lenges which have been labelled as the 'backlash' against international investment law. In response, the backlash-related discussion has been very productively transformed into a reform debate in international organizations2 and academia.3 The present Special Issue of the Journal of World Investment & Trade on 'Comparative and International Investment Law: Prospects for Reform' includes contributions from scholars and practitioners in interna- tional law, comparative law, and international economic law that deal with the backlash and take different viewpoints, as well as sometimes different stances, regarding the future direction of the reform process. All the contribu- tions follow though a similar methodological approach; they tap into a rather underutilized resource of the investment law regime: domestic investment law and policy. The articles look at the domestic level of investment governance * Associate Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) College of Law; Associate Member, Centre for Law, Economics and Society, UCL. I would like to thank Guilherme Recena Costa, Clinton W Francis, Susan Karamanian, and Peter Tzeng for their support of the project. i Michael Waibel and others (eds), The Backlash Against Investment Arbitration. Perceptions and Reality (Kluwer 2012). 2 The reform discussion process is prominently taking place within Working Group III: Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); see <http://uncitral.org/uncitral/en/commission/working-groups/ 3Investor_State.html> accessed 1 February 2019. 3 The Academic Forum on ISDS has the purpose of providing a venue for academics to exchange views, explore issues and options, test ideas and solutions, and hopefully make a constructive contribution to the ongoing discussions on possible reform of ISDS, in particu- lar to discussions in the context of UNCITRAL's Working Group III; see Academic Forum on ISDS, Statement of Purpose (CIDS - Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement, 12 March 2018) <https://cids.ch/images/Documents/ISDS-AcademicForum/Academic_ Forum_ISDS_Statement_ofPurpose.pdf> accessed 1 February 2019. © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2020 1 DOI:10.1163/22119000-12340165

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