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Rational design or accidental evolution? The emergence of international investment law / Joost Pauwelyn -- The nature of investment disciplines / Ursula Kriebaum -- Analogies and other regimes of international law / Martins Paparinskis -- Ordering paradigms in international investment law : bilateralism, multilateralism, multilateralization / Stephan W. Schill -- The sociology of international investment law / Moshe Hirsch -- The scope and limits of trade's influence in shaping the evolving international investment regime / Mark Wu -- The sources of foreign investment law / Florian Grisel -- No right without a remedy : foundations of investor-state arbitration / Sergio Puig -- Building legitimacy through interpretation in investor-state arbitration : on consistency, coherence, and the identification of applicable law / Jürgen Kurtz -- Against consistency in investment arbitration / Thomas Schultz -- Sovereignty in foreign investment law / Jorge E. Viñuales -- Property, investment, and the scope of investment protection obligations / Zachary Douglas -- Control mechanisms in international investment law / Anne van Aaken -- The balancing (and unbalancing?) of interests in international investment law and arbitration / Alex Mills -- Differentiating among international investment disputes / Julie A. Maupin -- Coordinating adjudication processes / Michael Waibel.