Primer: International Investment Treaties and Investor-State Dispute Settlement

Modalities for investment protection and Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in TTIP from a trade union perspective

A Corporate Veto on Health Policy? Global Constitutionalism and Investor-State Dispute Settlement.

The importance of trade and investment agreements for health is now widely acknowledged in the literature, with much attention now focused on the impact of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms. However, much of the analysis of such agreements in the health field remains largely descriptive. We theorize the implications of ISDS mechanisms for health policy by integrating the conce...

Bilateral Investment Treaties and International Integration

This paper studies how bilateral investment treaties (BITs) affect the trade integration between partner countries. While the overall results from the full sample show that BIT signing is associated with an increase in overall imports that is generally smaller than the effect of WTO membership, BIT signing is found to have a considerable effect on capital goods imports and on imports of differe...

The Outsized Costs of Investor–State Dispute Settlement [AIB Insights Vol 16 No 1 (2016 Q1)]

AIB Insights Vol. 16, No. 1 The negoTiaTion of several mega-TreaTies in 2015, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), and other regional agreements, has generated substantial public discussion about the protections and privileges afforded to multinational enterpris...

The Economics of International Agreements and Dispute Settlement with IPRs