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Global Trade Online | 7-Oct-2015
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries have agreed on language that will allow members to exclude tobacco control measures from the scope of investor-state dispute settlement.
The Global Legal Post | 6-Oct-2015
The bankruptcy of oil and gas giant Yukos led to multiple proceedings against the Russian state and some enormous awards.
Info Justice | 2-Oct-2015
The new exception validates, rather than assuages, the concerns of those who have been criticizing ISDS systems for many years. Without express carve outs, ISDS provisions do threaten common health and safety regulations.
keywords:
CPTPP ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
South Centre | 2-Oct-2015
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is one of the most ambiguous and the least understood concepts in international economics. Common debate on FDI is confounded by several myths regarding its nature and impact.
keywords:
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
The Edge Markets | 2-Oct-2015
Governments will be allowed to block tobacco companies from suing over anti-smoking measures under a US proposal being considered by Pacific trading partners as part of Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 2-Oct-2015
There is an obvious need at the investors’ side for a mechanism making it possible to prevent the threatened violation of their investment. It is fair to say that where the violation of the investment is still only potential, notifying the dispute should be the primary tool for investment protection.
The Star | 2-Oct-2015
What little we know about the Harper government’s many international trade deals is cause for grave concern.
CDR | 2-Oct-2015
What are the next steps for investment protection in South Africa, as the country draws up new legislation governing foreign direct investment following the termination of a number of bilateral investment treaties?
La Tribune | 1-Oct-2015
La très contestée procédure d’arbitrage prévue dans la futur traité transatlantique ne verra donc pas le jour. Mais cela change-t-il vraiment quelque chose?
SSRN | 1-Oct-2015
Despite the deep irony of free trade agreements being subverted to codify and extend anti-competitive monopoly rights the joining of enhanced intellectual property rights (IPRs) and strengthened investor rights is creating a wild-west opportunity for unbounded corporate power.
