Luke Eric Peterson
Credits
Human Rights and Bilateral Investment Treaties
Mapping the role of human rights law within investor-state arbitration
– By Luke Eric Peterson
Luke Eric Peterson is a free-lance writer and consultant who has published widely on the international legal regime governing foreign direct investment. He is the editor of an electronic reporting service dedicated to international investment law, Investment Arbitration Reporter (www.iareporter.com). He can be contacted at
[email protected]
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Rights & Democracy is a non-partisan, independent Canadian institution created by an Act of Parliament in 1988 to promote democratic development and to advocate for and defend human rights set out in the International Bill of Human Rights. In cooperation with civil society and governments in Canada and abroad, Rights & Democracy initiates and supports programmes to strengthen laws and democratic institutions, principally in developing countries.
© Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development), 2009.
This report may be freely excerpted, provided credit is given to Rights & Democracy.
This report is also available in French and Spanish. Also available online at www.dd-rd.ca.
Translation: Claudine Vivier, Maria C. Corro, Adriana Chamorro.
Project coordination: Carole Samdup, Senior Advisor, Economic and Social Rights, Rights & Democracy.
Design: Green Communication Design inc. www.greencom.ca.
Production: Lise Lortie, Publications Assistant, and Marie Malo, Publications Officer, Rights & Democracy.
ISBN: 978-2-923539-31-7.
Printed in Canada.
Legal Deposit:
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, 2009.
National Library of Canada, 2009.