Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2017
Edited by Lisa Sachs, Lise Johnson, and Jesse Coleman
Author Information
Lisa Sachs, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, ,Lise Johnson, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, ,Jesse Coleman, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment,
Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Since joining CCSI in 2008, she established and now oversees the three areas of focus for CCSI: investments in extractive industries, investments in land and agriculture, and investment law and policy. She specializes in extractive industries, foreign investment, corporate responsibility, and integrated economic development. She received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, and earned her J.D. and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, where she was a James Kent Scholar and recipient of the Parker School Certificate in International and Comparative Law.
Lise Johnson is the Investment Law and Policy Head at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Her work at CCSI centers on analyzing investment treaties and treatybased investor-state arbitrations, and examining the implications those instruments and cases have for host countries' domestic policies and sustainable development strategies. In addition, she concentrates on key institutional and procedural aspects of the investment law framework, including efforts to increase transparency in and legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement. She has a B.A. from Yale University, J.D. from University of Arizona, LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and is admitted to the bar in California
Jesse Coleman is a legal researcher for the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Her work at CCSI focuses on investment law and policy, natural resources, and the intersection between human rights and sustainable development. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor of Laws from Trinity College Dublin, and holds a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, where she specialized in international law. Her research while at Cambridge focused on the interplay between international human rights law and land-based investment.
Contributors:
James Zhan
Brooke Skartvedt Guven
Taylor St. John
Olabisi Akinkugbe and Sara Seck
Reji K. Joseph
Julie Martin, Stephen Kay, and Mark van der Does
Lise Sachs, Lise Johnson, Jesse Coleman, and Nathan Lobel
Catharine Titi
Jarrod Hepburn
Markus Krajewski
Carlos Correa
Zoe Phillips Williams
Lorenzo Cotula and Thierry Berger
Mouhamadou Madana Kane
Diane Desierto
Catharine Titi
Facundo Perez
David Schneiderman
Tania Voon, Andrew Mitchell, and James Munro
Antonin Sobek
Crina Baltag
Avidan Kent
Alessandra Mistura
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Edward Guntrip
Amokura Kawharu and Luke Nottage
Aveek Chakravarty
