This book analyses the dispute settlement mechanisms under the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), including the already established mechanisms for general state-to-state dispute settlement and the Mechanism to Address Differences for investment and sustainable development issues.

Chunlei Zhao is a researcher at the Institute for International Dispute Settlement at Tsinghua University, China. She received her PhD from Maastricht University, the Netherlands in 2020. Her research focuses on international trade and investment law and international dispute resolution. She was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European, and Regulatory Procedural Law and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. She has internship experience at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). She is also a practising lawyer in mainland China.

1. Introduction: China, the EU, the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, and International Investment Dispute Settlement 2. Analyzing the State-to-State Dispute Settlement System in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment 3. Analyzing the Mechanism to Address Differences under the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment 4. The Basis for Prospecting the Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment 5. The Prospective Investor-State Dispute Settlement under the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment 6. Towards a Comprehensive Dispute Settlement System under the EU-China CAI 7. Conclusion