Steven Ratner

Steven Ratner (University of Michigan Law School)

Global Perspectives on Teaching International Investment Arbitration: Reflections on Three Plus Decades of Change and Continuity

October 1, 2026

I started teaching a course I called “International Law on Foreign Investment” as an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School in the fall of 1992. The course was highly unusual at that time, with…

Martin Doe (Permanent Court of Arbitration), Steven Ratner (University of Michigan Law School), Katerina Yiannibas (Columbia Law School and University of Deusto)

Arbitrating Business and Human Rights Disputes: Public Consultation on the Draft Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration

June 27, 2019

Since 2013, an independent group of international lawyers (the Working Group of the Business and Human Rights Arbitration project) has been considering the possibility of using international…

Claes Cronstedt, Jan Eijsbouts, Martijn Scheltema, Robert C. Thompson (Working Group on International Arbitration of Business and Human Rights), Steven Ratner (University of Michigan Law School)

International Arbitration of Business and Human Rights: A Step Forward

November 16, 2017

International arbitration is taking a giant step forward as part of the global movement to protect human rights. A drafting team, with expertise in international investment, arbitration, human rights…