GLOBE Centre’s Visiting Fellow, Dr Lorenzo Cotula, who is Princiapl Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and GLOBE Centre Director, Dr Celine Tan, Associate Professor at Warwick Law School, have published a new blog on 'Public-Private Partnerships and Aid's 'Private Turn': Addressing the Investment Law Dimensions' as part of their larger project on regulating Aid Investments in Development (RAID), conducted with the assistance of Chris Tassis, PhD candidate at Warwick Law School. The blog argues that private turn in development policy and practice brings development finance into closer contact with global economic governance instruments typically associated with commercial activities, including international investment agreemements. It creates new challenges for the interface between development policy and the law governing foreign investment, ultimately affecting the extent to which public action can advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Dr Celine Tan and Professor (Emeritus) Julio Faundez’s latest edited collection is hot off the press. Examining the law, regulation and governance of natural resources, this book addresses the conflicts and contradictions arising at the intersection between international economic law, sustainable development and other areas of international law.