Resources
Learn more about the investment protection system, arbitration courts and the instruments that enable them. Here we provide a list of interesting resources for further reading.
Reports
Global ISDS Tracker
How Corporate Courts Threaten our Future – Transnational Institute, PowerShift, Trade Justice Movement and others, June 2024
Juggling Crises
Latin America’s battle with COVID-19 hampered by investment arbitration cases – Transnational Institute, August 2020
25 años de tratados de libre comercio e inversión en América Latina
Análisis y perspectivas críticas – Plataforma América Latina mejor sin TLC, August 2020
Cashing in on the Pandemic
How lawyers are preparing to sue states over COVID-19 response measures – Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory, May 2020
Pandemic Profiteers
How foreign investors could make billions from crisis measures – Transnational Institute, April 2020
Red Carpet Courts
10 stories of how the rich and powerful hijacked justice – Friends of the Earth Europe and International, Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory, October 2019
Judgment C-252 of 2019 of the Constitutional Court of Colombia
Change of precedent on the control of BITs – Federico Suárez Ricaurte, Investment Treaty News, September 2019
One Treaty to Rule Them All
The ever-expanding Energy Charter Treaty and the power it gives corporations to halt the energy transition, Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory, June 2018
Conflicts between Latin American Countries and Transnational Corporations
The challenges of the region in the face of asymmetrical investment treaties – Jorge Marchini, Josefina Morales and Gabriela Roffinelli, Investment Treaty News, July 2018
Making the Right to Regulate in Investment Law and Policy Work for Development
Reflections from the South African and Brazilian experiences – Fabio Morosini, Investment Treaty News, July 2018
One Treaty to Rule Them All – Executive Summary
Executive Summary in English – Report on the Energy Charter Treaty, by Cecilia Olivet, Pia Eberhardt and Lavinia Steinfort, Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute, June 2018
The Recent Argentina–Qatar BIT and the Challenges of Investment Negotiations
Facundo Pérez-Aznar, Investment Treaty News, June 2017
Investment Court System put to the test
Report on European Union’s proposal for a new investment court, by Cecilia Olivet, Natacha Cingotti, Pia Eberhardt, Nelly Grotefendt, and Scott Sinclair, Canadian Center on Policy Alternatives, Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe, German NGO Forum on Environment and Development and Transnational Institute, September 2016
Unmasked: Corporate Rights in the Renewed Mexico-EU FTA
Manuel Perez Rocha and Cecilia Olivet, Transnational Institute and Institute for Policy Studies, June 2016
The zombie ISDS
Report on Europe’s ICS, Pia Eberhardt, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), Association Internationale de Techniciens, Experts et Chercheurs (AITEC), Attac Austria, Campact, ClientEarth, Ecologistas en Acción, Forum Umwelt & Entwicklung, Instytut Globalnej Odpowiedzialności (IGO), PowerShift, Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B), Traidcraft, Transnational Institute, Umanotera, Védegylet, Vrijschrift, War on Want, and 11.11.11., February 2016
Licensed to Grab
Report on how international investment rules undermine agrarian justice, by Pietje Vervest and Timothé Feodoroff, Transnational Institute
Profiting from injustice
Report on how law firms, arbitrators and financiers are fuelling an investment arbitration boom, by Pia Eberhardt and Cecilia Olivet, Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute, November 2012
Websites
If you want to know how many Trade and Investment Treaties your country has signed, search the UNCTAD database:
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