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Haley Sweetland Edwards

    Shadow Courts
    • 2016

      Shadow Courts

      • 142 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      "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

      Shadow Courts