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Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Public Interest And U.S. Domestic Law, Lise Johnson, Lisa E. Sachs, Jeffrey D. Sachs
Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Public Interest And U.S. Domestic Law, Lise Johnson, Lisa E. Sachs, Jeffrey D. Sachs
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
As negotiations are ongoing in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP), CCSI staff and Jeffrey Sachs discuss the implications of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) for domestic law and policy, focusing on effects within the US. The paper concludes that the risks ISDS poses for domestic law are significant and unjustified, and that there are preferable policy alternatives to pursue as a means of protecting the rights of investors operating overseas.
A Tale Of Two Kadis: Kadi Ii, Kadi V. Geithner & U.S. Counterterrorism Finance Efforts, Douglas Cantwell
A Tale Of Two Kadis: Kadi Ii, Kadi V. Geithner & U.S. Counterterrorism Finance Efforts, Douglas Cantwell
National Security Law Program
The European Court of Justice's final decision in Kadi II-Yassin Abdullah Kadi's challenge in Europe to his designation as an international terrorist financier has stimulated significant discussion on the relationship between European and international law. Less attention has been paid to the Kadi II's correlate in US. courts, Kadi v. Geithner, decided in the D.C. Circuit. The varying outcomes in these cases create a "transnational split record" that has implications for reform of multilateral counterterrorism sanctions.
This Note considers the impact of Kadi's legal challenges in the United States and Europe from the perspective of U.S. counterterrorism policy. …