ITN: Since becoming the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Business & Human Rights, you and your team have delved into a number of quite specific areas of international investment law, including bilateral investment treaties, the rules of investor-state arbitration, and stabilization clauses. What has drawn you to this particular area of international economic law? John Ruggie: My work on investment is part of examining the role of states in regulating and adjudicating corporate activities vis-à-vis human rights, as requested in my initial mandate... As we’ve seen in a number of recent cases, the investment regime can have a significant impact on human rights issues...