Taylor St John

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Taylor St John is a Researcher at PluriCourts (2022-5) on leave from her permanent position at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. At PluriCourts, she co-leads the Compliance Politics of International Investment Disputes (COPIID) project.   

She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at PluriCourts (2016-8) before joining St Andrews, and before that a Fellow in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics (2015-6), and researcher at the Global Economic Governance Programme, University of Oxford (DPhil 2015).

In addition to the publications below, she and Anthea Roberts have coauthored an EJIL: Talk! blog series on ISDS reform since 2017. 

Her book, The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Politics, Law, and Unintended Consequences (Oxford University Press) co-won the International Political Economy Best Book Award from the International Studies Association, and most of the underlying archival documents are available for download from the Qualitative Data Repository here.

Publications

  • Strain, Nicola Claire; Lie, Runar Hilleren; Chernykh, Yuliya; Espelid, Even; St John, Taylor & Langford, Malcolm [Show all 20 contributors for this article] (2024). Compliance politics and international investment disputes: a new dataset. Journal of international economic law. ISSN 1369-3034. doi: 10.1093/jiel/jgae004.
  • St John, Taylor (2023). Three Conceptions of Sovereignty in Contemporary Investment Law. In Smith, Christopher J. (Eds.), Sovereignty: A Global Perspective. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780197267127.
  • Roberts, Anthea & St John, Taylor (2023). The Originality of Outsiders: Innovation in the Investment Treaty System. European journal of international law. ISSN 0938-5428. 33(4), p. 1153–1181. doi: 10.1093/ejil/chac065. Full text in Research Archive
  • Larsson, Olof; Squatrito, Theresa; Stiansen, Øyvind & St John, Taylor (2022). Selection and Appointment in International Adjudication: Insights from Political Science. Journal of International Dispute Settlement. ISSN 2040-3585. 14(2), p. 134–148. doi: 10.1093/jnlids/idac014. Full text in Research Archive
  • Roberts, Anthea & St John, Taylor (2021). Complex Designers and Emergent Design: Reforming the Investment Treaty System. American Journal of International Law. ISSN 0002-9300. 116(1), p. 96–149. doi: 10.1017/ajil.2021.57. Full text in Research Archive
  • St John, Taylor (2020). The Creation of Investor-State Arbitration. In Schultz, Thomas & Ortino, Federico (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198796190.
  • Berge, Tarald Laudal & St. John, Taylor (2020). Asymmetric diffusion: World Bank ‘best practice’ and the spread of arbitration in national investment laws. Review of International Political Economy. ISSN 0969-2290. 28(3), p. 584–610. doi: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1719429. Full text in Research Archive
  • St John, Taylor (2019). Institutional Developments in Investment Law and Policy. In Sachs, Lisa; Johnson, Lisa & Coleman, Jesse (Ed.), Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2017. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198830382.
  • St John, Taylor (2018). Enriching Law with Political History: A Case Study on the Creation of the ICSID Convention. In Schill, Stephan W.; Tams, Christian J. & Hofmann, Rainer (Ed.), International Investment Law and History. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 978 1 78643 995 6.
  • St. John, Taylor (2017). Investment: Contestation and Transformation. In Hale, Thomas & Held, David (Ed.), Beyond Gridlock. Polity Press. ISSN 1509515712. p. 83–101.

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  • St. John, Taylor (2018). The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Politics, Law, and Unintended Consequences. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198789918. 304 p.

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