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Shepard Broad College of Law to Hold Forum on Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, Nov. 17
NSU’s Shepard Broad College of Law will be hosting a forum on the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 17, in the Panza Maurer Law Library. The event, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Association of Business Law Students (ABLS.)
TPP, a comprehensive trade and investment agreement between the United States and a dozen Pacific Rim countries, is expected to be fast-tracked soon for a vote before Congress without amendments. At the forum, experts from NSU’s Shepard Broad College of Law, H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship and the College of Pharmacy as well as speakers from Florida International University’s College of Law and the Communication Workers of America will debate the details of the proposed agreement.
The discussion will be divided into two panels:
- Panel I: Trade, Economic Growth, Labor and Human Rights
- Panel II: Investor Rights and Regulation
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was reached on October 5, 2015, between a dozen Pacific Rim countries from the Americas (the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, and Chile) and Asia (Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Brunei). If approved, the TPP would be the largest trade deal in history, lowering tariffs and other trade barriers across a wide range of industries, extending patent protections for medicinal drugs, and affecting such diverse industries as agriculture, automobiles, telecommunications, copyright, financial services, and currency trading. The full and final copy of the TPP was just released by the U.S. Trade Representative on November 5.
For more information on the panel participants and to RSVP, please go to: https://www.law.nova.edu/news/TPP-Public-Forum.html