The Asian Turn in Foreign Investment

Mahdev Mohan is the Global Lead for new internet users and emerging markets product policy at Google LLC, and was formerly a faculty member at the Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Law where he taught public international law and directed SMU's Asian Business and Rule of Law initiative. A former Nominated Member of Parliament of Singapore, he is the Executive Director of the Society of International Law Singapore, an editorial board member of the Journal of East Asia and International Law and China and WTO Review, and has written and practised in the fields of public international law, investment arbitration and human rights law in Asia. Mahdev is an Associate Tenant of Temple Garden Chambers within its public international law practice group.

Chester Brown is Professor of International Law and International Arbitration at the University of Sydney Law School; a Barrister at 7 Wentworth Selbourne Chambers, Sydney, and an Overseas Member of Essex Court Chambers, London. He teaches and researches in the fields of public international law, international dispute settlement, international investment law, and international commercial arbitration. He also maintains a practice in these fields, and has been involved as counsel in proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, inter-State and investor-State arbitral tribunals, as well as in inter-State conciliation proceedings and international commercial arbitrations.