Bulletin #4 Recent trends in the investment protection system: resistance and impacts on human rights and the environment

CLACSO Working Group on Lex Mercatoria, Corporate Power and Human Rights
Bulletin: Corporate Power, the State, and Social Struggles. Notes from International Law and Political Economy
Year 5 – Issue #4 Recent trends in the investment protection system: resistance and impacts on human rights and the environment
April 2026

CONTENTS

1. Point of departure
   Magdalena Bas Vilizzio
2. The BRICS in the investor-state dispute settlement regime
   Ana Saggioro García
3. How to get out of TBI without dying in the attempt?
   andres arauz
4. Between investment protection and regulatory sovereignty
   Magdalena Bas Vilizzio
5. The Argentina-United States trade agreement turns the RIGI into a mega investment protection treaty
   Luciana Ghiotto
6. The Amicus Curiae in investor-state arbitration
   María Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces
7. Transnational arbitration within the extractive legal structure. Defending Water and Life in the Face of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System
   Juan Camilo Sarmiento Lobo
8. Final comments
   Luciana Ghiotto