1. Public purpose in NAFTA; 2. Identifying public purpose in customary international law: select international instruments; 3. Defining the profile of the public purpose doctrine in human rights conventions; 4. The effect of bilateral investment treaties on the public purpose doctrine and the public purpose doctrine's distortion of symmetry in bilateral investment treaties: discerning order and structure; 5. Permanent sovereignty over natural resources; 6. The role of public purpose in foreign investment protection statutes: can FIPS rehabilitate the doctrine?; Appendix I. A comparison between the performance requirements articles of the Canada-Jordan BIT and the Colombia-Japan BIT; Appendix II.

An empirical review of the pre-eminence of the public purpose doctrine throughout the ever-expanding universe of bilateral investment treaties; Appendix III. A spatial comparison of provisions relating to investment protection, incentives, and dispute resolution in foreign-investment promotion statutes and bilateral investment treaties.