Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction --    Antonino Alì, Sondra Faccio, and Marco Pertile -- 1 Public Emergencies and Investment Law before the Pandemic: Past Emergencies and Lessons Learned --    Pia Acconci -- 2 The Impact of the Pandemic on the Reform of Investment Treaty Standards --    Tarcisio Gazzini and Valentina Vadi -- 3 The Impact of the Pandemic on the isds Reform --    Ksenia Polonskaya -- 4 Foreign Direct Investment and Geoeconomic Risk: Sketching the Contours of an Emerging Concept --    Jens Hillebrand Pohl and Mikael Wigell -- 5 Controlling Foreign Direct Investment in the Wake of the covid Pandemic: Enhanced and Supplementary Screening Procedures among EU Member States --    Antonino Alì -- 6 Preventing Unwanted Acquisitions before and after the covid Crisis --    Francesco Salerno and Marco Grantaliano -- 7 Full Protection and Security and the covid -19 Pandemic --    Sebastián Mantilla Blanco -- 8 Revisiting the fet Standard and the Right to Regulate in Times of Crisis: The Notion of Stability in an Assessment of Legitimate Expectations --    Yulia Levashova -- 9 Indirect Expropriation in the Context of the Pandemic: Confronting Investment Treaty Provisions with covid -Related Regulatory Measures --    Niccolò Zugliani -- 10 Responses to the covid -19 Pandemic and Customary Law Defences: Force Majeure and the State of Necessity --    David Collins -- 11 State Defences under International Investment Agreements --    Silvina González Napolitano -- 12 Scientific Knowledge and Domestic Regulatory Measures: Perspectives from the covid Pandemic --    Sondra Faccio -- 13 Questions of Public Health before Investment Tribunals: Can Amici Curiae Play a Useful Role? --    Avidan Kent and Jamie Trinidad -- 14 Remarks on Procedural Issues concerning Scientific and Technical Evidence in Investment Arbitration --    Gian Maria Farnelli -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

This book discusses how the Covid pandemic has reshaped investment screening mechanisms, investment law and arbitration. Contributions from leading academics and practitioners offer a fresh perspective on the reform of the ISDS mechanism and investment treaties; security and public order risks in FDI screening; the application of treaty standards and customary law defences; and the critical role of scientific data in investment arbitration. With rare insights and unpublished data, this book is your essential guide to understanding the resilience of the investment regime in these challenging times.

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