Roderick Abbott

The trade consequences of Brexit are just one element of the overall withdrawal exercise to be triggered by a notification under Article 50 TEU. Withdrawal covers policy areas such as EU jurisdiction through the ECJ; broad areas of regulation, mainly for Single Marker purposes; citizen’s rights (EU and UK) and immigration questions - among...

Investor-State Dispute Settlement, a legal provision in Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) or other International Investment Agreements that gives investors a right to call for arbitration with a state, has recently become the centre of controversy in a debate over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Critics argue that such a provision is either illegitimate, unnecessary, and/or does not have any positive influence on flows of Foreign...

This policy brief outlines the chronology of the developments since Edward Snowden leaked the documents on large-scale electronic surveillance, including PRISM and Tempora programmes, the policy implications and the public’s response. It concludes that the nature of the debate has shifted from a legal and constitutional issue about US surveillance, to a global concern. The revelations have led to divergent attitudes towards surveillance operations, with Britain...

This paper seeks to look at EU Trade and Development policies which seem to be at a crucial moment - crucial in the sense of the point at which the two policies meet and cross each other. The two ought to go in tandem, hand in hand; but in reality there are increasingly obstacles at the crossroads. The paper starts with a short historical overview of the basic philosophy, and then examines recent developments and where this may...