Appellate Body, BIT, Free Trade Agreements, Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, International arbitration, Investment Arbitration, ISDS, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, TPP
Mega-Regional Investment Arbitration
Investment obligations and investor-State arbitration provisions normally have been negotiated under bilateral investment treaties (BITs), or, more recently, in the larger context of free trade agreements (FTAs). For investment provisions, the movement from BITs to FTAs recently has taken an additional, significant step: the negotiation of such provisions in the even larger context of mega-regional…