This paper explores the systemic problems that plague provision-dependent investment protection reforms in CETA, TTIP, and other recent EU-FTAs. The authors suggest that the current international investment system's asymmetrical structure precludes effective reforms because reforms that “level...

This article examines the 2014 European Parliament elections and their impact on the future functioning of the EU and, in particular, their effect on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (“TTIP”) negotiations. This analysis proposes the resultant thesis that political leaders...

The TTIP negotiation efforts in chemicals are not ambitious enough. The focus in TTIP has been far too much on the differences in the two ‘systems’ rather than on the factual level of health and environmental protection for substances regulated by both the US and the EU. Given OECD...