Shadow Courts: The Tribunals That Rule Global Trade

Résumé · International trade deals have swiftly emerged this year as politically controversial, attracting both condemnation and confusion from voters all over the world. In this book, investigative journalist Haley Sweetland Edwards focuses on one crucial aspect of these massive agreements: a powerful provision called Investor-State Dispute Settlement, which allows foreign corporations to sue sovereign nations before little-known supranational arbitration tribunals.