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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.
Embassy | 1-Oct-2015
Canada will likely be left out of a new system proposed by the European Union for settling disputes between countries and corporations—at least for now.
Focus Online | 30-Sep-2015
Rankin acted on behalf of an American mining corporation in its successful bid to sue Canada using NAFTA.
Bretton Woods Project | 30-Sep-2015
This briefing finds significant ICSID bias in favour of corporations and commercial interests by analysing ICSID overall and by looking at a specific case brought by a global mining corporation against El Salvador.
Vieuws | 29-Sep-2015
The European Commission wants the new Investment Court System (ICS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to be co-financed from the EU budget only, Mauro Petriccione, Deputy Director-General at DG Trade has told MEPs.
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The Argentina Independent | 29-Sep-2015
El Salvador is defending itself against a US$301m lawsuit filed after it blocked a mining project to protect the country’s heavy-polluted water supply. The imminent verdict will set a precedent amid a growing trend of companies suing governments when they can’t exploit their natural resources.
OMAL | 28-Sep-2015
La comisaria de Comercio de la Comisión Europea presentó la semana pasada una propuesta para la modificación del mecanismo de solución de controversias entre inversores y Estados que está contemplado en el TTIP.
Scoop | 28-Sep-2015
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s TPP done deal on dairy, and on investor-state disputes
