Private Actors in International Investment Law

Katia Fach Gómez, Introduction.- Paolo Vargiu, Stakeholders of Investment Arbitration: establishing a dialogue among arbitrators, states, investors, academics and other actors in international investment law.- Elie Kleiman, Charles T. Kotuby Jr. and Iris Sauvagnac, Investment arbitration counsel's role in the progressive development of international law.- Sébastien Manciaux, Some thoughts on the Independence of Party-Appointed Expert in International Arbitration.- Carlo de Stefano, The Nationality of Natural and Juridical Persons in International Investment Law.- María Beatriz Burghetto, Risk assessment and third-party funding in investment arbitration.- José Ángel Rueda-García, Third-party funding and access to justice in investment arbitration: security for costs as a provisional measure or a standalone procedural category in the newest developments in international investment law.- Richard E. Walck, A Quantum Expert's Perspective on Third-Party Funding.- Ina C. Popova & Katherine R. Seifert, Gatekeeping, lawmaking, and rulemaking: lessons from third-party funding in investment arbitration.- Karsten Nowrot and Emily Sipiorski, Towards a Republicanisation of International Investment Law?: Conceptualising the Legitimatory Value of Public Participation in the Negotiation and Enforcement of International Investment Agreements.- Alvaro Galindo and Ahmed Elsisi, Non-Disputing Parties' Rights in Investor-State Dispute Settlement: The Application of the Monetary Gold Principle.- Alina Papanastasiou, Media Wars: Transparency and Aggravation in International Investment Arbitration.- Niccolò Ridi and Thomas Schultz, Empirically Mapping Investment Arbitration Scholarship: Networks, Authorities, and the Research Front.

Katia Fach Go mez is tenured Professor (Profesora Titular) of Private International Law at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). She was Adjunct Professor at Fordham University (New York), Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School (New York), Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Grantee at the Max-Planck Institut (Germany) and Senior Humboldt Scholar in various German research institutions. Katia has also lectured at numerous European and Latin American Universities. She holds a European PhD summa cum laude from the University of Zaragoza, and an LLM summa cum laude (prize Edward J. Hawk) from Fordham University. Katia is the author of numerous books, book chapters and articles on international economic law, international arbitration, private international law, and comparative law. Katia has been involved in diverse international litigation and arbitration cases in the USA and Europe, and she has chaired various commercial arbitration panels.