The “Human Nature” of International Investment Law

In the context of the 'fragmentation' narrative, international law regimes are often perceived as homogeneous, both in terms of the objective they pursue and the people who compose them. Such is the case of international investment law (IIL) that is usually depicted as an investor-oriented setting and whose adjudicators are at times portrayed as constituting a homogeneous college. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the relationships between IIL and human rights are addressed by mainstream literature as a matter of interaction between two different legal and social ...