The questions for the session 1:

1.      What is the purpose of international investment law? What are the origins of international investment law?

2.     What is the relationship between diplomatic protection and international investment law?

3.      Is international investment law’ public international law or private international law? What does “arbitration                 without privity” refer to?

4.     What are the sources of public international law? What is their relationship to sources of international investment law?

5.     What is the role of international customary law in international investment law?

6.     What role investment tribunals' awards do play in international investment law?  Do they have the value of                           precedent?

7.     What is the role of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in international investment law?

8.     What is the role of EU law in disputes arising from intra-EU investment treaties? What are the consequences of the                   Achmea judgment? What is the main message of the CJEU’s Komstroy Case?

9.     Please look into investment treaties in your study materials and try to idenfity their common trunk.

Please find below the compulsory readings that would help you in answering the above questions:

Summary of our discussion in the session: