Soon after Italy approved a ban on offshore oil drilling, in 2015, the country received some alarming news: A British oil company that had been planning to drill was suing the government, seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation. The company, called Rockhopper, brought its claim not in Italian courts but through a system […]
The most recent episode of the Deconstructed podcast was all about the ISDS. I can’t believe I’d never heard of this before.
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/20/deconstructed-corporations-democracy-silent-coup/