title: Gus Van Harten
text: # Gus Van Harten
  
  Gus Van Harten is a professor of Administrative Law at York University's Osgoode Hall. He is co-editor of the journal Administrative Law — Cases and Materials. He has particular focus on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS).
  
  ## Early years
  
  He was born in Burlington, Canada, and was the oldest of 3 kids in his family. Van Harten clerked in the Ontario Court of Appeal and later worked on the Walkerton Inquiry over the two years from 2000, and then the Arar Inquiry for two years from 2004.
  
  ## In academia
  
  Van Harten was a faculty member in the Law Department of the London School of Economics, prior to his appointment at Osgoode Hall in 2008.
  
  Van Harten is a critic of the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement.
  
  ## Learned texts
  
  * Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law. OUP. 2007.
  * Sovereign Choices and Sovereign Constraints. OUP. 2013.
  * Sold Down the Yangtze: Canada's Lopsided Investment Deal with China. Lorimer. 2015.
  