1) My interest, and I think the interest of most people here is to understand the economic and political consequences of the TPP, not to obscure them with legal sophistry.
2) Delong's point is that the members are binding themselves to an international framework that will be difficult or impossible to back out of. He connects this with the problems of the EU. This is absolutely about sovereignty.
3) Unfortunately the main article appears to be a Monk debate which isn't available online.
4) Delong is a voracious advocate of free trade and also a political ally of the president who's trying to ram this one through. The fact that he's increasingly become hostile to this particular agreement is an indictment of the agreement, not of him as a critic.
I wasn't indicting DeLong as a critic. Like I said, I probably agree with most of what he's written about TPP. I just don't think he's making the specific claim you say he is.
2) Delong's point is that the members are binding themselves to an international framework that will be difficult or impossible to back out of. He connects this with the problems of the EU. This is absolutely about sovereignty.
3) Unfortunately the main article appears to be a Monk debate which isn't available online.
4) Delong is a voracious advocate of free trade and also a political ally of the president who's trying to ram this one through. The fact that he's increasingly become hostile to this particular agreement is an indictment of the agreement, not of him as a critic.