Private Actors in International Investment Law (eBook)

This book presents the first critical review of the less frequently addressed stakeholders in international investment law. Focusing on private actors, including but not limited to lawyers, experts, funders, civil society, the media and scholars, the book highlights the variety of actors that help shape international investment law and demonstrates how best to manage their interactions in order to achieve synergies and enhance the legitimacy of this pluralistic field.

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.