TPP Is Not the Answer
Category: POLITICS
The most salient "add-on" feature of the TPP is its investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, which gives investors private rights of action against governments outside the court system. The problem is not so much that it violates rule of law and sovereignty, but that it shrinks the actual and potential role of the public.
By Chantal Thomas, ContributorCornell University professor of international economic law, 2015-06-24