St. JohnRISE OF INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION C
Taylor St John is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, PluriCourts, University of Oslo, and Senior Research Associate, Global Economic Governance Programme, University of Oxford.
* Introduction
* 1: International Officials and the Rise of ISDS: A Historical
Institutionalist Account
* Part I. Creating the Convention
* 2: Gunboats and Diplomacy: Antecedents of the ICSID Convention
* 3: Intergovernmental Bargaining: 'The Lowest Common Denominator Was
Not Yet Low Enough'
* 4: Supranational Agenda-Setting: The World Bank's 'Modest Proposal'
* 5: Intergovernmental Deliberation and Ratification of ICSID
* Part II. Eliciting State Consent
* 6: Layering: How Investor-State Arbitration Was Added to Investment
Treaties
* 7: Conversion: America Embraces Investor-State Arbitration
* 8: Why is Exit So Hard? Positive Feedback and Institutional
Persistence
* Conclusion