Press Release – 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.
Critics Already Gearing up for TPP round in Auckland Read More »
Press Release – 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 …
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Press Release – 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 …
Professor Challenges Groser to Public Debate on TPP Rules Read More »
Press Release – 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.
National Says ‘Yes’ to Investor Rights to Sue Read More »
Press Release – 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 …
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Press Release – 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 …
Eminent Jurists Say ‘No’ to Investor Right to Sue in TPP Read More »
Article – 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.
NZ-US Council’s TPPA Study Lacks Credibility Read More »
Press Release – 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 …
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Press Release – 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 …
US Abandons Fig-Leaf of Transparency on TPPA Read More »
Press Release – 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 …
Business as Usual for Secret TPPA Negotiations Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Call to Censure Mike Moore for Co-hosting TPP Lobbying Bash for Big Oil, Tobacco & PhRMA in Washington DC
Call to Censure Mike Moore for Co-hosting TPP Lobbying Bash Read More »
Press Release – 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 …
China Could Have Sued Under FTA If Crafar Farm Sale Declined Read More »
