Brilliant webinar. Well done! Let me share a few initial impressions & questions: “A rising tide lifts all boats” also judicial remedies, rule of law, and transparency - also for domestic investors, and by extension for all domestic stakeholders in these features of good governance. The ISDS's asymmetry (no host State claims, limited scope for counterclaims) and difficult to ascertain host State obligations (and exceptions), e.g. FET and MFN effects, are mostly substantive issues to be addressed in IIAs or even better in *one* (new) MAI. Does addressing (often overstated) procedural shortcomings prevent simultaneous or subsequent recalibration of the substantive norms? I think you do “Western” and “Non-Western” demographics an injustice suggesting that elites (or elitism) are limited to one or the other! 😊The jargon reverberates with my own ancient neo-Marxist-leaning studies of political economy!
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