Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Rise of the Legal System in the 1990s
A lot of these cases seem to be starting from the 90s onwards. Why was there a sudden uptick in the mid 1990s of actually using this system to sue countries? I think it's a number of things happening at the same time, including international investment and free trade treaties that enshrine access to the system. And then another thing that has happened is that the institutional knowledge within the legal ecosystem has increased around the system.
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