Nicolette Butler

TTIP trade deal: will new measures weaken Governments’ power to act in the public interest?

By Nicolette Butler Filed Under: All posts, Europe Posted: April 28, 2016

One of the biggest bones of contention in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks centres on the proposed Investment Court System. Critics are concerned that the ‘investor-state dispute settlement’ mechanism could weaken the power of governments to act in the best interests of their people. Whilst the EU Commission has sought to allay critics […]

Beyond the headlines on TTIP: Beware the fine print

By Gabriel Siles-Brügge and Nicolette Butler Filed Under: All posts, Europe, Featured Posted: June 1, 2015

Although much of the criticism in the UK of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused on the NHS and ‘corporate tribunals’, Gabriel Siles-Brügge and Nicolette Butler argue that this overlooks one of its central purposes: a series of provisions that could make it more difficult for governments to regulate in the public […]

TTIP and dispute settlement; don’t throw baby out with bathwater

By Nicolette Butler Filed Under: Europe, Featured Posted: May 23, 2014

The proposal of a mechanism for investors to sue foreign governments is one of the more contentious aspects of the on-going EU-US trade talks. But as Dr Nicolette Butler argues, the benefits of neutrality and de-politicisation in dispute resolution should not be hastily discounted. As the latest round of EU-US trade talks rumble into their final day, […]

TTIP trade deal: will new measures weaken Governments’ power to act in the public interest?

Beyond the headlines on TTIP: Beware the fine print

TTIP and dispute settlement; don’t throw baby out with bathwater

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