A Noble Effort or Window Dressing? Computational Analysis of Human Rights-Related Investor Obligations in International Investment Agreements

International investment law may be the most criticised front of contemporary international economic law. One main points criticism stresses its substantively asymmetrical structure, which creates an imbalance between respective rights and obligations foreign investors all other stakeholders in relations such as home host states, local communities NGOs. proposals to address this issue is include more human rights-related on agreements, and, increasingly, we see provisions newly concluded agreements. Yet our understanding these often limited certain agreements or specific subjects, preventing us from analysing their overall balancing promise accurately. Through automated textual analysis qualitative methods, study aims offer a taxonomy for found provide comprehensive nuanced picture obligations. It demonstrates that despite increase number provisions, they fail introduce progressive obligations, contain vague terminology are not directly addressed investors. Consequently, become highly difficult enforce