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Having fun with TPP: National Cartoon Competition Launched

Friday, 28 September 2012, 8:51 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey

The 16th round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations will be held in Auckland from 3-12 December, presumably at Sky City as that was the venue of the December 2010 round. More >>

Critics Already Gearing up for TPP round in Auckland

Sunday, 16 September 2012, 11:09 am | Professor Jane Kelsey

“Having the negotiations on our doorstep will help focus attention on what is probably the most far-reaching executive lawmaking New Zealand has ever seen”, said Dr Jane Kelsey, a strong critic of the proposed agreement. More >>

If Tobacco Policy Protected in TPP, Why a New US Exception

Friday, 15 June 2012, 4:13 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey

“US plans to table a specific exception of tobacco contradict the government’s reassurances that a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement would not restrict New Zealand’s right to introduce plain packaging or other tobacco control laws”, according to ... More >>

Professor Challenges Groser to Public Debate on TPP Rules

Thursday, 14 June 2012, 2:39 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey

Trade Minister Tim Groser told Radio New Zealand this morning that New Zealand will do nothing in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement that stops us now or any government in the future from regulating in public health and other legitimate public policy ... More >>

National Says ‘Yes’ to Investor Rights to Sue

Thursday, 14 June 2012, 8:46 am | Professor Jane Kelsey

Another chapter of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations has been leaked, heralding “another bad news day for National”, says TPP critic Professor Jane Kelsey. More >>

Trade & Investment Agreements Could Threaten Smokefree Goal

Thursday, 31 May 2012, 8:32 am | Professor Jane Kelsey

Wednesday 30 May 2012 New Report Warns Trade & Investment Agreements Could Threaten NZ’s Smokefree Goal “New Zealanders are rightly surprised and indignant when tobacco companies like Philip Morris use international trade and investment treaties ... More >>

Eminent Jurists Say ‘No’ to Investor Right to Sue in TPP

Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 1:28 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey

More than 100 jurists from New Zealand and other countries currently or potentially engaged in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, including some of their most eminent lawyers, ave sent an open letter to the negotiators calling for the right ... More >>

Eminent Jurists Say ‘No’ to Investor Right to Sue in TPP

Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 9:24 am | Professor Jane Kelsey

More than 100 jurists from New Zealand and other countries currently or potentially engaged in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, including some of their most eminent lawyers, have sent an open letter to the negotiators calling for the right ... More >>

NZ-US Council’s TPPA Study Lacks Credibility

Friday, 4 May 2012, 12:24 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey

A study released by the NZ-US Council today to coincide with its 10-year anniversary suggests a multi-billion dollar bonanza to New Zealand from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. More >>

Jane Kelsey: Tobacco Industry Will Use Offshore Courts

Friday, 20 April 2012, 3:43 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey

“The tobacco industry will use every legal avenue it can to stop New Zealand introducing plain packaging laws”, predicts University of Auckland Professor Jane Kelsey, who is just completing a report on the impact of trade and investment agreements on New ... More >>

Jane Kelsey: Tobacco Industry Will Use Offshore Courts

Friday, 20 April 2012, 3:42 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey

US Abandons Fig-Leaf of Transparency on TPPA

Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 9:12 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey

“As anticipated, now that the US has taken control of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations it has removed the only pretense of transparency – the day-long ‘stakeholder’ programme where critics can present information and analysis directly ... More >>

Business as Usual for Secret TPPA Negotiations

Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 8:25 am | Professor Jane Kelsey

“Apologies to those who got excited by my April fool’s day announcement that the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations were emerging from behind their shield of secrecy and the text would at last face democratic debate and scrutiny”, said ... More >>

Call to Censure Mike Moore for Co-hosting TPP Lobbying Bash

Sunday, 26 February 2012, 7:37 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey

Call to Censure Mike Moore for Co-hosting TPP Lobbying Bash for Big Oil, Tobacco & PhRMA in Washington DC More >>

China Could Have Sued Under FTA If Crafar Farm Sale Declined

Monday, 30 January 2012, 10:19 am | Professor Jane Kelsey

If the New Zealand government had declined the Shanghai Pengxin purchase of the Crafar farm it could have faced an international law suit for breaching its free trade agreement with China, says University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey. ‘When China’s ... More >>

TPP And US Anti-China Strategy, Conclusions

Monday, 21 November 2011, 10:56 am | Professor Jane Kelsey

I argued in Part I that the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is one limb of an American strategy to secure what US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls “America’s Pacific Century”. [...] The TPPA is intended to complement America’s remilitarisaton in the Asia Pacific by constructing a region-wide legal regime that serves the interests of, and is enforceable by, the US government and its corporations. China will be increasingly isolated, as a critical mass of APEC countries signs on to the “gold standard” deal, and may ultimately subordinate itself to the TPPA’s US-designed “international norms”. Part II examines three pivotal questions about the execution of that strategy. More >>

TPP As Lynchpin of US Anti-China Strategy

Monday, 21 November 2011, 10:00 am | Professor Jane Kelsey

The real agenda behind the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) came into the open at this month’s APEC meeting in Honolulu. As we have always assumed, the driver has very little to do with commercial gain and everything to do with revival ... More >>