Reducing the Gap between International Investment Law and Human Rights Law in International Investment Arbitration?

This article addresses the slowly emerging interpretative criteria detectable in recent international investment arbitration case law that may conduce to reducing the gap between the international investment law and international human rights law. Against that background and in light of the increasing number of international instruments related to human rights and environmental protection germane to the matter in hand, further potentials are considered for the interpretation and application of international investment law that may enhance a balanced relationship between the private interest of foreign investors with the public interest concerns of host States.