The impact assessment demonstrated that the risks touted by TiSA opponents turned out to be largely unfounded, that the agreement would have been unlikely to yield the benefits that the government and other proponents were putting forwards, and that it posed risks that neither proponents nor opponents had previously flagged. This points to a first way in which human rights impact assessment (HRIA) can be valuable. Rigorous and dispassionate legal analysis of proposed new laws can – and often ...