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"Preface" [2015] ELECD 1558; in Schill, W. Stephan; Tams, J. Christian; Hofmann, Rainer (eds), "International Investment Law and Development" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) xii

Book Title: International Investment Law and Development

Editor(s): Schill, W. Stephan; Tams, J. Christian; Hofmann, Rainer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784711344

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Preface
This book marks the start of a new series, the Frankfurt Investment and
Economic Law Series. As editors, we hope the series will establish itself
as a forum for dialogue and debate about a core field of international law
whose importance is likely to increase further with progressing global-
ization: international economic law. Open to the legal regime governing
international economic relations at large, its particular focus is on
international investment law. Rather than focusing principally on prac-
tical concerns raised in this field, we intend the series to become a forum
for the discussion of conceptual and foundational issues of international
investment law: this includes questions of legitimacy and policy, the
interaction with other fields of international and domestic law, both
public and private, and interdisciplinary approaches to investment law
and policy, among others. The focus of the series reflects our belief that,
while international investment law and international economic law are
firmly established, perhaps too much of the academic discourse today
remains in the form of a coda to practice. Books in this series will be
diverse in their approaches; but, as series editors, we hope they will
contribute to an independent and rigorous analysis that does more than
retrace developments in practice.
The series has grown out of a range of workshops held in Frankfurt
and organised by our respective institutions ­ the Wilhelm Merton Centre
of European Integration and International Economic Order, the School of
Law of the University of Glasgow and the Max Planck Institute ...