The Investor Arbitration Clauses in TPP Are Indeed Very Bad

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Lambert Strether

I like Tyler Cowen’s restaurant reviews a lot, but sometimes I think he should stick to doing them; I think that right now, in fact. Here’s a throwaway post from Cowen on ISDS provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). tl;dr: Move along people, move along. There’s no story here. In longer though not very long form, after posing this rhetorical question in the headline:

How bad are the investor arbitration clauses in TPP?