Oxford University Press to publish ICSID Review
2 November 2011Oxford University Press (OUP) is pleased to announce its partnership with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an independent facility within the World Bank for resolution of international investment disputes, for the publication of the ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal.
OUP will begin publishing articles in 2012, in addition to providing access to the journal’s full archive. The first issue published by OUP will be Volume 27, Issue 1.Founded in 1986, the ICSID Review is a specialized periodical devoted exclusively to foreign investment law and international investment dispute settlement. The Review offers legal and business professionals an up-to-date review of the field and includes articles, case comments, documents, and book reviews on the law and practice relating to foreign investments as well as the procedural and substantive law governing investment dispute resolution.
“ICSID is delighted to be teaming up with Oxford University Press to publish the ICSID Review, and we look forward to benefitting from Oxford’s long tradition of publishing excellence,” Meg Kinnear, Secretary-General of ICSID, said.
ICSID Review, previously available in print only, will also benefit from the full range of online functionality offered by Oxford Journals, including continuous publication, related article recommendations, and a fully optimized mobile site.
“We are thrilled to be extending our publishing by partnering with ICSID, and discussing how to further develop the quality and impact of the ICSID Review,” said Andy Redman, Editorial Director for Law at OUP. “Our goal is to enshrine the Review as the standout source for the latest thinking and scholarly reflection on international investment law.”
The journal joins OUP’s comprehensive international investment law and arbitration portfolio and, through OUP’s online platform and extensive marketing and international sales, will broaden its reach to a global audience. OUP currently publishes two loose-leaf services in partnership with ICSID: Investment Laws of the World and Investment, Promotion and Protection Treaties.
For more information about the ICSID Review, including subscriptions, article submission guidelines, and how to register for free content-alerting services, please visit http://icsidreview.oxfordjournals.org.
For more information, please contact:
Rhodri Jackson, Publisher, Law
Oxford Journals
Oxford University Press
+44 (0)1865 353510
rhodri.jackson@oup.com
Notes to editors
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. OUP is the world's largest university press with the widest global presence. It currently publishes more than 6,000 new publications a year, has offices in around fifty countries, and employs more than 5,500 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing program that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and academic journals.
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes is an international organization established within the World Bank Group by the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States, which entered into force on October 14, 1966. ICSID provides facilities for conciliation and arbitration of investment disputes between States and nationals of other States in accordance with the provisions of the Convention and Additional Facility and under other sets of arbitral rules. The Convention was sponsored by ICSID to promote mutual confidence between States and foreign investors and an atmosphere conducive to increasing the flow of private international capital into host States.