Stephan Schill
About/Bio
Stephan Schill is Professor for International and Economic Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Center for International Law, Principal Investigator in the ERC project on “Transnational Private-Public Arbitration as Global Regulatory Governance: Charting and Codifying the Lex Mercatoria Publica” and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Investment and Trade.
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The Constitutional Frontiers of International Economic Law
March 9, 2017
Stephan Schill
The End of Mega-Regionalism? The future of ‘mega-regionals’, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), has become doubtful since President Trump took office. Through decisions, such as the withdrawal from TPP, he is putting his rhetoric to ‘Make America Great Again’ in action. Yet, the idea to…
The Mauritius Convention on Transparency: A Model for Investment Law Reform?
April 8, 2015
Stephan Schill
In the midst of heated debates on investor-State dispute settlement in Europe, on 10 December 2014 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration. Prepared by UNCITRAL in the context of its recent revision of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, the Convention, also known as the ‘Mauritius Convention on Transparency’,…
Towards a Constitutional Law Framework for Investment Law Reform
January 5, 2015
Stephan Schill
Reforming international investment law and investor-state arbitration is a widespread concern. This is nowhere more manifest than in the heated debates (in Germany and elsewhere) about the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Should there be investor-state arbitration between economies with well-functioning legal systems? Do we need an…
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Popular articles by Stephan Schill
Arbitrator Independence and Academic Freedom
May 30, 2014
Stephan Schill
In international law, members of the discipline often fill a variety of professional roles. Many are scholars and practitioners at the same time; some even act in capacities that are mutually incompatible at the domestic level, such as being counsel and decision-maker at the same time – albeit in different proceedings. Investment arbitration is an area where this…
The Public Law Paradigm in International Investment Law
December 3, 2013
Stephan Schill
In my last post, I discussed the virtues of investor-State arbitration and suggested that this dispute settlement system could react to current criticism by reconceptualizing the system from within. To succeed, a reconceptualized system would have to provide an accountability mechanism to implement the rule of law that produces results similar to those of other accountability mechanisms…
Comparative Public Law Methodology in International Investment Law
January 3, 2014
Stephan Schill
In my last post I argued that investment law should be reconceived as a system of public law adjudication in order to react to current criticism. The debate over the role of public law in investment arbitration has resounded in other discussions in this forum. It requires understanding arbitration not only as a dispute settlement mechanism,…