The article aims to clarify the controversy over whether extrajudicial forensic expertise represents evidence or not. The beginning of the article deals with some general considerations on the notion of expertise, when and by whom it is ordered, and who can carry out the forensic expertise. Then the results of a comparative study on the regulation of the expertise in criminal and civil law are presented, while demonstrating that...

The study aims to identify the origin, `membership` and developments of international investment law in the set of international law regulations. The merging of these pieces into a legal mechanism was generated by the overflow of sources of legislation, jurisprudence and doctrine. For this study, a coherent mix between transdisciplinary research methods was required, being used in this context, the methods: qualitative and comparative. The inst...