Lots of people are asking about what the Trump administration will do with investment treaties and investment chapters of FTAs.  Will their sovereignty concerns mean they reject ISDS?  Or will their pro-business views mean they support ISDS? This from the LA Times is one of the first reports of

Compliance review in the DS461 dispute, Colombia - Textiles, is proceeding in the strangest order I can remember seeing.  Keep in mind that Panama was the complainant and Colombia was the respondent in the underlying dispute. Here's the timeline of the compliance part: February 9, 2017: Panama proposes suspension

As I mentioned here last week, TransCanada's NAFTA Chapter 11 claim is now over, after the State Department issued a Presidential permit for building the Keystone XL pipeline.  The transcript of President Trump talking about this with TransCanada's CEO is here, and the ICSID web site

It is a well-known story that Big Pharma aggressively uses trade negotiations, political lobbying, and domestic and international litigation (and the threat thereof) to expand the monopoly rents it gains from patent protection, and defeat the effort of states to limit intellectual property rights in the public interest, whether

Given my concerns about ISDS and its effects on the policy space of states, sometimes people are surprised to learn that I have consulted to the investor's counsel in a number of these disputes.  The fact is, though, that sometimes the investor happens to be the good guy,

OK, not really on ISDS, but touching on ISDS to a very slight degree. Here's what he said a couple days ago: I’ve cleared the way for the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines -- and added a requirement that American pipelines be constructed with American steel.  That

From the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) at the University of Warwick: On Tuesday, 16 May 2017, the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) at the University of Warwick, as part of the International Economic Law in Context Seminar

This is from Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross at his confirmation hearing (sorry about the all caps -- that's how it was at the link and I don't feel like retyping it): BUT I WOULD HOPE THAT IF CONFIRMED I CAN CONTRIBUTE TOWARD DESIGNING KIND OF A

This is from the FT: Finance ministers from the world’s biggest economies have dropped pledges to renounce protectionism in a meeting marked by tension over trade between the US and others including China. G20 finance ministers meeting in the German resort town of Baden-Baden noted the importance of