Via Techdirt:
Even though the formal negotiations for TAFTA/TTIP have begun only recently -- earlier meetings were largely exploratory -- it is already clear what the most contentious chapter will be: that dealing with corporate sovereignty, or "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS) as it's more formally known. Indeed, even back in January, ISDS was generating so much negativity that the European Commissioner responsible for TTIP, Karel De Gucht, decided to pull the corporate sovereignty chapter from the negotiations for a three-month EU consultation in an attempt to draw the sting from the criticisms...
