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Canadian companies behaving badly
Now | 11-Dec-2015
Mining sins in poor countries are likely to get worse under Trans-Pacific Partnership.
keywords: Canada , CPTPP , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Pakatan Harapan MPs seek AG’s advice on constitutionality of TPPA agreement
The Malaysian Insider | 4-Dec-2015
Four lawmakers today wrote a letter to the Attorney-General seeking clarification whether the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is in line with the spirit of the Federal Constitution.
keywords: CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Malaysia
Lessons to learn from TPP: What the EU shouldn’t do in TTIP
BEUC | 3-Dec-2015
Although TPP seems a remote issue, it could have a direct impact on EU consumers.
keywords: CPTPP , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , medicines , TTIP
TPP & ISDS: new tests for India
Gateway House | 27-Nov-2015
For India, the U.S.-driven Trans Pacific Partnership will skew investment and intellectual property rights, and especially the debate over the Investor State Dispute System which allows companies to challenge soverign rights and public policy.
keywords: CPTPP , India , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
The new gold standard? Empirically situating the TPP in the investment treaty universe
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies | 25-Nov-2015
The TPP investment chapter offers few truly novel features and is instead heavily influenced by prior American treaty practice.
keywords: bilateralism & multilateralism , CPTPP , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the environment: an assessment of commitments and trade agreement enforcement
CIEL | 19-Nov-2015
Like TPP, U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) formed in the past two decades have similarly promised meaningful and enforceable labor and environmental safeguards.
keywords: actions | resistance , CPTPP , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Trans-Pacific Partnership investment chapter: maintaining important protections for U.S. investors overseas
The National Law Review | 19-Nov-2015
The final text of the TPP’s Investment Chapter remains broadly consistent with other U.S. investment agreements and includes some important new language that is consistent with the U.S. Model BIT issued by the U.S. State Department
keywords: CPTPP , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
What a new NAFTA complaint can tell us about the TPP
AFL-CIO | 16-Nov-2015
A coalition of U.S. and Mexican labor and civil society groups are taking an unprecedented legal approach to protect workers’ rights that will test the strength of labor protections in international trade agreements.
keywords: CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , labour | workers’ rights , NAFTA | USMCA
A first glance at the Investment Chapter of the TPP agreement: a familar US-style structure with a few novel twists
IA Reporter | 16-Nov-2015
In broad terms, the agreement’s investment chapter looks familiar – particularly in relation to other recent U.S. investment treaties and FTAs.
keywords: CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS
TPP’s clauses that let Australia be sued are weapons of legal destruction, says lawyer
The Guardian | 11-Nov-2015
Leading arbitration lawyer says there are critical loopholes in the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s investment chapter that leave Australia wide open
keywords: Australia , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS