American Journal of International Law: Volume 117 -

The United States Accuses Russia of Not Complying with New START Treaty and Russia Suspends Its Participation
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27 July 2023, pp. 522-527
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The Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act
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13 April 2023, pp. 358-363
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The Senate Provides Its Advice and Consent to Ratification of U.S.-Chile Tax Treaty After Eleven Years
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30 October 2023, pp. 718-723
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Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Corporation 1886–1981. By Doreen Lustig. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. vii, 256. Index.
Karen J. Alter
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25 January 2023, pp. 172-177
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Capitalism as Civilisation A History of International Law. By Ntina Tzouvala. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. vii, 239. Index.
José E. Alvarez
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13 April 2023, pp. 364-371
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The United States Seeks to Counter China's “Economic Coercion” Through Enhanced Cooperation and Coordination
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30 October 2023, pp. 723-728
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The Biden Administration Takes Actions to Restructure Migration to the U.S.-Mexico Border
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27 July 2023, pp. 528-534
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Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War. By Samuel Moyn. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Pp. 416.
David Kaye
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25 January 2023, pp. 177-183
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Race & International Investment Law: On the Possibility of Reform and Non-retrenchment
Olabisi D. Akinkugbe
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27 July 2023, pp. 535-547
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The international investment regime is in flux. The mainstream practice of investment law and arbitration works on the basis of the regime's foundations in contract and property law. However, critical scholarship in the field has unearthed the coloniality of power that permeates both the practice of international investment law and the current reform exercise led by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III. These critical scholars warn of the imminent reproduction and entrenchment of the systemic inequities, power asymmetries, and investment law's investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) regime which is skewed against post-colonial host states. The two books1 under review offer a range of thought-provoking approaches for analyzing the past, present, and future of investment law. This Review Essay categorizes these books into two modes of critical scholarship on international investment law: moderate and radical.2 In Part II, I flesh out the conceptual categories of moderate and radical critique. In Part III, I analyze the books under review through the lens of these two conceptual frameworks. In Part IV, I turn to the question of race and investment law. This Review Essay suggests that race should not be neglected in our analysis of the past, present, and, most importantly, the future of investment law—a core theme that both books under review does not engage with. Part V briefly concludes.