While the Obama Administration has made passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) a top priority, both major party presidential candidates have declared that they would refuse to sign the agreement. But beyond the campaign talking points and spin room analysis, are there substantive criticisms of the agreement? If so, what are they?
Transforming the Global Economic Order: Understanding Critical Perspectives on the TPP is a day-long conference on October 4, 2016 at Yale Law School that addresses these questions by bringing a slate of leading TPP critics together in order to assess their claims. Panelists will examine the agreement’s effects on access to medicine, corporate power, democracy, the environment, financial sector regulation, health and safety regimes, and inequality. Panelists will also discuss their differing visions for a new American trade agenda.
Please join ACS, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Global Health Justice Partnership, the Center for Global Legal Challenges, the Yale Political Union, APALSA, SALSA, YELA, and YHeLPS in hosting discussions with U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro, Lori Wallach of Public Citizen, Dean Baker of the Center for Economics & Policy Research alongside representatives of Doctors Without Borders, the Sierra Club, AFL-CIO, and many others. This event is open to the public; no registration is required. For more details, see the poster attached below or contact publicaffairs.law@yale.edu or call (203) 432-8464.