NAFTA, Suggestions to improve transparency and access to usable data, Transparency in investment arbitrations
Seeking to Ensure Transparency: UNCITRAL Working Group II’s Work on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor State-Arbitration
On March 11, 2001, The New York Times published an article entitled “Nafta’s Powerful Little Secret; Obscure Tribunals Settle Disputes, but Go Too Far, Critics Say.” It began, ominously: “Their meetings are secret. Their members are generally unknown. The decisions they reach need not be fully disclosed.” Over the ensuing decade, while NAFTA Chapter Eleven…