Jeffery Commission, Director of Burford Capital's underwriting investment arm, and Brooke Güven, Legal Researcher at the Columbia Law School Center on Sustainable Investment, led a dscussion, with member participation, on the issues discussed in Brooke's report: The Policy Implications of Third-Party Funding in Investor-State Dispute Settlement, including whether third-party funding increases frivolous and marginal cases, skews decisions to settle, and creates regulatory chill and overdeterrence. A copy of the report was circulated by email.