Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in investment treaties, perceived as a “gold standard” for decades, have been increasingly subject to significant political objections, leading to an understanding that foreign investors should be given “no greater rights” than domestic investors have. Professor Kleinheisterkamp analyses the resulting legal tensions between granting foreign investors rights against states actionable in international jurisdictions and the states’ sovereign rights, and obligations, to regulate in the public interest, and discusses a possible reconciliation, at least in the U.S.- European context of the negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Please RSVP to Dawne Peacock at dfp7@cornell.edu for the luncheon.