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Shadow courts : the tribunals that rule global trade

Haley Sweetland Edwards (Author)
"Edwards offers a ... look at one little-known but powerful provision in most modern trade agreements that is designed to protect the financial interests of global corporations against the governments of sovereign states. She [posits] that investor-state dispute settlement --a 'shadow court' that allows corporations to sue a nation outside its own court system--has tilted the balance of power on the global stage"--Amazon.com

Print Book, English, 2016
Columbia Global Reports, New York, NY, 2016