What would Teddy Roosevelt have thought of "investor-state dispute" tribunals?

[PosterChild]

21. The op references....

...the concept of "investor-state dispute" tribunals, which are claimed, in the on going discussion of the TTP, to be an evil that will "limit soverignty" and cause a host of other terrible, horrible, no good conditions. But the truth is that such tribunals exist, have existed for some time, and serve a useful and benifical purpose without causing all of the hypothetical problems that are supposed to result.

Given this background my suspicion is that the brew-ha-ha is just a ploy to exploit people's general ignorance of these tribunals to create fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Here is a fact sheet about such tribunals that might prove informative:

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2013/october/tradoc_151791.pdf