Introduction

This chapter explores the interaction of international investment law with the rights of indigenous peoples. The crossover of these growing subfields of public international law may arise in a variety of ways in the context of investor-state arbitration, as described in section 2 of this chapter. First, indigenous people might be the investor claimants in an arbitration against a state and invoke the specific protections owed to indigenous peoples in support of their claim. Second, a foreign investor might complain about measures taken by a host state that were put in place for ...