Recent research and opinion from around LSE on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
TTIP might be the last opportunity for individual EU members such as the UK to have a major impact on setting high standard global trade rules.
Dennis Novy, previously a specialist adviser to the House of Lords on TTIP, wrote in February 2015 on LSE’s European Politics and Policy blog that ‘Governments need a more convincing narrative if they want to sway the public debate on TTIP’.
Stephanie Rickard, Associate Professor of Political Science at LSE’s Government Department, asked ‘Will 2015 bring a TTIP agreement? Maybe, with the help of TAA’ [Trade Adjustment Assistance ]
In February 2015, Jan Kleinheisterkamp, Associate Professor at LSE Law, Martti Koskenniemi, Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Centennial Professor at LSE, gave an LSE Works lecture, available as a video. They explored the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). What can be learned from the resistance in terms of legal compatibility with EU law and domestic law – and of political acceptability? The event was chaired by Shawn Donnan, World Trade Editor at the Financial Times.
Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen, University of Oxford, Jonathan Bonnitcha of LSE and Jason Webb Yackee, University of Wisconsin look at the costs and benefits of an EU-USA investment protection treaty in a 2013 LSE Enterprise report for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills – finding few benefits and significant costs.
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