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The TAFTA | TTIP and Treatment Access: What does the Agreement Mean for Intellectual Property Rights over Essential Medicines?
Written by Future Challenges team
This article was written by Faisal I. Chaudhry | University of Pennsylvania Abstract: Issues surrounding patent protection for pharmaceuticals and access to essential medicines have long been a source of controversy in the context of multilateral trade agreements. Even as the battles that crystallized over anti-retroviral therapies for HIV/AIDS treatment and […]
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In between Curious Economics and l’exception culturelle: Implications of TAFTA | TTIP for the Cultural Sector
Written by Future Challenges team
This article was written by Markus A. Kirchschlager | Participating Expert at Internet & Society Collaboratory e.V. | markus.kirchschlager@collaboratory.de | @extraverbal Abstract: The special role played by the cultural sector in free trade agreements is as old as trade liberalization itself. Informed by current negotiations on a transatlantic free trade […]
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TAFTA | TTIP: No Thank You! That’s Not What a Transatlantic Partnership Means*
Written by Future Challenges team
This article was written by Alessa Hartmann (German Forum on Environment and Development) and published in the “Transatlantic Colossus“. Abstract: The elimination of tariffs and the harmonization of standards increases economic power and produces wealth for all – this is the fallacy the negotiations between the US and the EU on […]
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The Treatment of Non-Investment Interests in Investor-State Disputes: Challenges for the TAFTA | TTIP Negotiations
Written by Ciaran Cross
Abstract: Current TAFTA | TTIP negotiations are expected to provide US investors with the capacity EU governments through international investment arbitration. This field of international law is experiencing a huge surge, with record numbers of investor-state disputes being filed. However, investment claims brought by investors disadvantaged due to policies promoting […]
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Tackling Regulatory Trade Barriers in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Written by Simon Lester
Abstract: In the recently launched Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement, also known as Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TAFTA | TTIP) negotiations between the US and the EU, President Obama has indicated that the talks will make reducing regulatory barriers a signature issue. The emphasis on tackling these barriers has generated […]
