How corporations enforce their interests with investor lawsuits
In the newly published factsheet: "Robbery in the raw materials sector – How corporations enforce their interests with investor lawsuits" is all about investors suing states. The text goes back to the roots of investment protection – as a mechanism to protect colonial investments from expropriation even after independence. But current cases are also examined extensively, in which, for example, mining companies use investor lawsuits to prevent sovereign commodity policy and environmental laws in the global South, e.g. in El Salvador, Indonesia and South Africa.
