{"id":6247,"date":"2013-02-11T00:18:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T05:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2013-10-03T23:23:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T03:23:28","slug":"does-international-investment-law-need-administrative-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2013\/02\/does-international-investment-law-need-administrative-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Does international investment law need administrative law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Webb Yackee\u2019s thoughtful article, <i>Controlling the International Investment Law Agency<\/i>,\u00a0is an important contribution to a growing literature on the question of the legitimacy of the international investment law (IIL) system, and, in particular, investor-state arbitration, which is largely the focus of his article.\u00a0 Rather than taking a for-or-against position on the IIL system in its present form,\u00a0Professor Yackee proposes that we accept the system as it exists and analogize it \u201cto a domestic-law administrative agency in which significant policymaking authority is transferred from political organs to expert decisionmakers who are charged\u201d to effect \u201cthe promotion and protection of foreign investment.\u201d\u00a0 In viewing the IIL system through this lens, Professor Yackee argues that the system\u2019s major weakness\u2014\u201cthe lack of sufficient mechanisms of state political control\u201d\u2014is laid bare, and that the state can, in his view, be reinserted to \u201csit at the top of the decisional hierarchy\u201d through application of administrative-law principles.\u00a0 The state is \u201cre-stated\u201d (my word, not his) at the center of the IIL system by recognizing that the system is a political one that needs political checks, and those checks are provided by states.\u00a0 In Professor Yackee\u2019s view, principles of administrative law point the way to a partial solution\u2014\u201cthe adaptation of notice-and-comment and legislative veto concepts to the dispute resolution process.\u201d\u00a0 The idea is that viewing the IIL system through the lens of administrative-law agency provides a potential solution to the question at the heart of the system itself:\u00a0 what role should the state play in IIL, especially in the investor-state context?<\/p>\n<p>In this response, I do three things.\u00a0 First, I examine whether there is a problem with the IIL system that needs an administrative-law solution.\u00a0 Second, I explore whether the analogy to administrative law helps solve the putative problem.\u00a0 Third, I offer some concluding thoughts to encourage the consideration of more than state interests in evaluating the IIL system.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2013\/02\/Childress-to-Publish.pdf\">Read full article 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