Matteo Vaccaro Incisa’s comparative and analytical monograph on “China’s Treaty Policy and Practice in International Investment Law and Arbitration” was published in Brill Nijhoff’s prestigious International Investment Law series. In this in-depth research, Matteo Vaccaro-Incisa offers the most comprehensive and detailed account of China’s Treaty Policy and Practice in International Investment Law published to date. By analytically surveying several key provisions (including ISDS, expropriation, MFN, NT, FET, FPS) of 120 International Investment Agreements concluded by China, and their evolution over the time (and comparing them with the relevant formulations employed by other key players), this work innovatively manages to draw an objective assessment of China’s treaty practice in this field. This research represents an essential tool for both academics and practitioners involved with international investment law and arbitration, in particular but not limited to China. The monograph is the “crown jewel” of Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa’s “Chinese trilogy”, which includes also two pieces that expand on selected topics:

• Arbitration Clauses Limited to Compensation due to Expropriation: Relevant Case Law, Interpretive Trends, and the Case of China’s Treaty Policy and Practice, in Handbook of International Investment Law (Chaisse Ed.; Springer, 2020), and
• Objective criteria and ratione legis condition in the definition of investment: global trends and the Chinese practice, in Asian Perspectives on International Investment Law (Nakagawa Ed.; Routledge, 2019).

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