Freya Baetens is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University and Visiting Professor at the World Trade Institute in Bern. Concurrently with her academic activities, she has assisted several arbitration panels and regularly contributes to the drafting of memorials and expert opinions in international dispute settlement as an associate lawyer with VVGB Advocaten/Avocats (Brussels). She has published on a wide range of topics, including treaty interpretation, state responsibility, equality, sustainable development, interaction between legal regimes, and EU external relations.
'With no doubt, this book offers contemporary starting points for further analysis, as well as solid contributions in different topics of international investment law. This will foster discussions and that can be used to support or oppose ideas and arguments put forward in our own papers and research in this area. Altogether, this is an essential reading for all students, researchers, practitioners and scholars who face questions about the relationship between foreign investment law and other areas of international law.' Latin American Journal of International Trade Law 'This book is commendable for offering access to the insights of leading scholars from diverse backgrounds who discuss a subject that has not been widely explored before. Investor-state arbitrations have grown tremendously in the last two decades and this book is a mustread for practitioners, researchers, and students of investment law and international arbitration.' Cindy Fazzi, Dispute Resolution Journal