Bjorklund, Andrea K.; Reinisch, August --- "Introduction: The ILA Study Group on the Role of Soft Law Instruments in International Investment Law" [2012] ELECD 629; in Bjorklund, K. Andrea; Reinisch, August (eds), "International Investment Law and Soft Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: International Investment Law and Soft Law

Editor(s): Bjorklund, K. Andrea; Reinisch, August

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781003213

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: Introduction: The ILA Study Group on the Role of Soft Law Instruments in International Investment Law

Author(s): Bjorklund, Andrea K.; Reinisch, August

Number of pages: 8

Extract:

1. Introduction: the ILA Study Group
on the role of soft law instruments in
international investment law1
Andrea K. Bjorklund and August Reinisch

The Study Group was established by the International Law Association
(ILA) Executive Council in November 2008 for a three-year period with
the express mandate `to study the development of soft law instruments in
international investment law and the feasibility of a ``codification'' of the
present state of this field of international economic law'.
The Executive Council appointed Sir Franklin Berman (UK ILA
Branch) as Chairman, as well as Andrea K Bjorklund (US ILA Branch)
and August Reinisch (Austrian ILA Branch) as Co-Rapporteurs of the
Study Group. As of Spring 2010, further members of the Group were Yas
Banifatemi (French ILA Branch), Giuditta Cordero-Moss (Norwegian
ILA Branch), Melaku Desta (UK ILA Branch), Moshe Hirsch (Israeli
ILA Branch), Daniel Magraw (US ILA Branch), Kate Miles (Australian
ILA Branch), Audley Sheppard (UK ILA Branch), Christian Tietje
(German ILA Branch), Matthew Weiniger (UK ILA Branch), Catherine
Yannaca-Small (Greek ILA Branch), Andreas Ziegler (Swiss ILA
Branch).
The establishment of the Study Group was initiated by a proposal
elaborated jointly by Thomas Walde (deceased, formerly UK ILA
¨
Branch) and August Reinisch after the ILA Committee on the
International Law on Foreign Investment had come to an end at the Rio
Conference in 2008. It had concluded its work with the publication of the
Oxford Handbook on International Investment Law,2 which addressed
major issues of both substantive and procedural ...