Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Executive Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
Background to the international investment protection regime
Provisions of bilateral investment treaties
Fair and equitable treatment
Expropriation
Limited investor responsibilities
Dispute settlement provisions of bilateral investment treaties
Uses of BITs in investor lawsuits with host-governments
Regulatory authority and state sovereignty
Chapter 2: Exploring the relationship between human rights and investment treaties
Human rights and international law
Is human rights law being raised in investment treaty lawsuits?
Human rights analogies used to define protections owed to investors
Relevance of a state’s human rights obligations towards non-investors
The human right to water
Human rights to assembly and free expression
The human rights of indigenous peoples
Land reform and compensation
Policies targeting disadvantaged persons or groups
Issues of transparency and the right to receive information
Chapter3: Reflections and recommendations
Monitoring
Study and analysis of how similar issues are resolved in the two regimes
Study and analysis of how human rights law is interpreted and applied by investment arbitrators
