Introduction
1 Foreign investment and international law
2 Setting standards for the treatment of foreign investment
3 Taxation and international law: jurisdictional aspects
4 Taxation of transnational business
5 Challenges to the international legal order
6 The challenges of free trade: issues arising from the treatment and taxation of foreign investment in the EU and NAFTA
7 The treatment of foreign investment: towards a new paradigm
8 Towards international disciplines - some conclusions