The People Vs. Corporate Courts
A part of a day of action which saw people take to the streets to call on the UK government to drop ISDS from its trade policy; and to stand in solidarity with communities around the world fighting the environmentally and socially devastating extractive projects often at the heart of ISDS disputes.
Speakers include:
Aldo Orellana López, a Bolivian activist and journalist focused on environmental issues, extractivism and multinationals in Latin America – including on the use of ISDS to threaten the expansion of the Cerrejón mine, the biggest open-pit coal mine in Latin America Maria
Rita D’Orsogna, Italian mathematician, environmentalist and activist, central to the mobilisation against the oil drilling project at the heart of the Rockhopper v Italy case, brought under the controversial Energy Charter Treaty
Nicolás M. Perrone, ISDS expert and author of “Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play By Their Own Rules"
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