ISDS Case Map
sovereignty | democracy
We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes.
I thought it would be both exciting and challenging to follow clients into this new area of investment claims practice. What I didn’t know was that I was entering the Wild Wild West of international practice.
Profit is king. People are the pawns, and the Government will seem to be in favour of supra-national conglomerates if it signs this “new” TPP inclusive of the ISDS.
Why are countries so gripped in their quest for economic growth that they are empowering multinational corporations at the expense of their citizens?
It is now time we open up the dialogue on the kind of trade agreements that we want to see in place.
Observers of the ISDS debate in Europe should be concerned when the official position of an Advocate General before the European Court of Justice can be tied to the ISDS industry.
This legislation for post-Brexit Britain is not just bad law, it’s dangerous, allowing for deals without parliamentary scrutiny.
We stand against the plunder of peoples’ resources by multinationals and financial capital and against all forms of discrimination and racism.
Secrecy in the outcomes of investment arbitration remains high in part because parties have found ways to use settlements to hide relevant information.
IISD researchers identified 90 investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) cases in which sitting ICJ judges have worked–or are currently working–as arbitrators. The true number may be higher given that many ISDS cases are not public.
