Events

Geraldine McAllisterMega Treaties in International Trade and Investment: The Public Policy Implications of the TPP and T-TIP - A Discussion with Merit E. Janow, Dean, Columbia SIPA; Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law and International Affairs; Thea Lee, Deputy Chief of Staff, AFL-CIO; Peter Petri, Carl Shapiro Professor of International Finance, Brandeis University); and moderated by Jan Svejnar, James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy; Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia SIPA.

If finalized and adopted, these mega-treaties will cover 40 countries and have significant and complex implications for international economic law, domestic policy, and sustainable development at the macro- and micro-level. This discussion will consider the negotiations, Congress’s role in overseeing and ratifying their outcome, and what they mean for us.

Organized by the Center on Global Economic Governance and the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.