Controversies in the EU-US trade deal: what's the fuss around investor protection in TTIP?

Controversy and debate on the EU-US trade deal has focused on the fact that it could give investors the right to pursue international legal action against governments. What exactly is new about the investment protection provisions in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)? Who stands to gain, and who stands to lose from these controversial provisions? At this GEG seminar, experts on trade and investment negotiations will analyse the politics and consequences of an agreement.

At this GEG seminar, experts on trade and investment unpack the secretive negotiations, and analyse the politics and consequences of an agreement.

• Dr Lauge Poulsen, Lecturer in International Political Economy, University College London
• Taylor St John, Senior Researcher, Global Economic Governance Programme
• Jansen Calamita, Director, Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) 
• Professor David Gantz, the Samuel M Fegtly Professor of Law and Director of the International Trade Law Program, University of Arizona