Yuwen Li is Professor of Chinese Law and Director of the Erasmus China Law Centre at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Feng Lin is Professor of Law and Acting Dean at the School of Law. He is also Director of the Centre for Judicial Education and Research cum Identification of Hong Kong Law (JERI) at City University of Hong Kong.

Cheng Bian is Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

This book explores new developments on national security review of foreign direct investment from the perspectives of both domestic and international investment law. It illustrates how States and the EU use legal instruments to tackle exigent and emerging challenges, and the complexity of national security emanated from foreign investment.

List of contributors vii

List of abbreviations xiii

Preface and acknowledgments xvii

1 A general constitutional theory for national security review of foreign direct investment 1

FENG LIN

PART I

National security in international investment law 25

2 The essential security interest exception clause in international investment agreements and arbitration: from an exception to a norm? 27

CHENG BIAN

3 Public health, exception clauses and investment protection in the COVID-19 era 51

WEI SHEN

4 Europeanization of foreign direct investment screening: a spotlight on the EU Regulation 82

YUWEN LI

PART II

National security in national investment law 105

5 The national security review in China's new foreign investment legal regime 107

MAJA RUHL

6 Foreign investment screening mechanism in France 126

CHRISTINE MILES

7 Foreign direct investment screening in Germany 155

JULIA HÖRNIG, STEFAN KIRWITZKE AND FALK SCHÖNING

8 National security in national and international investment law: the case of Italy 176

CLAUDIO DORDI AND G. MATTEO VACCARO-INCISA

9 An inside look at the Netherlands' new general investment screening mechanism 196

PIM JANSEN AND LEONIE VAN DER LAAG

10 Protection of entities of strategic importance for the State: fragmentation and interplay between regimes in Poland 214

ALICJA ZIELINSKA-EISEN AND PIOTR WILINSKI

11 The National Security and Investment Act 2021: assessing the UK's new approach to investment screening 240

ALESSANDRO SPANO

Index 266