ISDS Case Map
sovereignty | democracy
The international economic law regime has stripped India of over $3.8 billion in taxes due by Vodafone and Cairn Energy, as the country is battling the Covid19 crisis.
Free-trade agreements enable companies to sue governments if they interfere with profit-making activities, no matter how destructive. These trade deals put us in an antidemocratic straitjacket — it's time we got rid of them.
In whose interests is the UK government negotiating post-Brexit trade deals? They would rather you didn’t know.
Campaigners had challenged the Department for International Trade (DIT) over its "hostile approach to freedom of information law".
Any potential trade deal will be more about what the US can take from Britain's markets rather than what it will give, with big pushes to open up agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors to American businesses.
Investors are receiving monetary damages that they would not be entitled to outside of ISDS, on the basis of an unjustified and highly reductive understanding of value.
Allegedly arbitrary or disproportionate measures, albeit in the public interest, provide regular grist for the mill of investment treaty arbitration.
As it leaves the EU, Britain is taking a far more secretive approach to the many trade talks it is holding. Neither the public – nor even our MPs – are allowed to know what’s happening in those negotiations.
The changes joint committees are allowed to make to the CETA-text are in effect very far-reaching and at the same time binding, so they take up the role of legislator.
Understanding power is more important to predicting the winners and losers of neoliberal economic policies than knowing the economics.
