The legal regime regulating cross-border investment gives key rights to foreign investors and places significant duties on states hosting that investment. It also raises distinctive moral questions due to its potential to constrain a state’s ability to manage its economy and protect its people. Yet international investment law remains virtually untouched as a subject of philosophical inquiry. The questions of international political morality surrounding investment rules can be mapped through the lens of two critiques of the law – that it systemically takes advantage of the global South and that it constrains the policy choices of states hosting investment. Each critique contains certain moral and empirical assumptions that deserve further attention. The distributive justice implications of international investment rules are also relevant to scholars of global distributive justice. The aim of the analysis is to develop an interdisciplinary agenda – among law, philosophy, and social science – for inquiry into the justice of investment law and reform of its unjust elements.

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调查文章：作为道德调查网站的全球投资规则

监管跨境投资的法律制度赋予外国投资者重要的权利，并对接受投资的国家规定了重要的责任。它还提出了独特的道德问题，因为它有可能限制一个国家管理经济和保护人民的能力。然而，作为哲学探究的主题，国际投资法几乎没有受到影响。围绕投资规则的国际政治道德问题可以通过对法律的两种批评来描绘——它系统地利用了全球南方，以及它限制了投资东道国的政策选择。每个批评都包含某些值得进一步关注的道德和经验假设。国际投资规则对分配正义的影响也与全球分配正义的学者有关。分析的目的是在法律、哲学和社会科学之间制定一个跨学科的议程，以调查投资法的公正性及其不公正因素的改革。