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Corporate Power Unbound: Investor-State Arbitration Of Ip Monopolies On Medicines – Eli Lilly And The Tpp, Brook K. Baker Mar 2014

Corporate Power Unbound: Investor-State Arbitration Of Ip Monopolies On Medicines – Eli Lilly And The Tpp, Brook K. Baker

Brook K. Baker

Free trade agreements (FTAs) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs) typically contain investment clauses designed to attract direct foreign investment and protect the interests of foreign investors. In addition to defining foreign investment that are entitled to protection, investment clauses typically allow for investor-state dispute resolution, which allows a foreign investor to launch arbitral proceeding directly against the offending government before a private panel of trade lawyers. This paper focuses first on a pro-investor draft investment chapter in an ongoing regional trade negotiation – the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - and second on the first investor-state arbitral claim ever by a …


U.S. Proposal For An Intellectual Property Chapter In The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Sean M. Flynn, Brook Baker, Margot Kaminski, Jimmy Koo Mar 2014

U.S. Proposal For An Intellectual Property Chapter In The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Sean M. Flynn, Brook Baker, Margot Kaminski, Jimmy Koo

Brook K. Baker

No abstract provided.


Language Acculturation Processes And Resistance To In"Doctrine"Ation In The Legal Skills Curriculum And Beyond: A Commentary On Mertz's Critical Anthropology Of The Socratic, Doctrinal Classroom, 34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 131 (2000), Brook K. Baker Mar 2014

Language Acculturation Processes And Resistance To In"Doctrine"Ation In The Legal Skills Curriculum And Beyond: A Commentary On Mertz's Critical Anthropology Of The Socratic, Doctrinal Classroom, 34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 131 (2000), Brook K. Baker

Brook K. Baker

No abstract provided.