{"title":"Mulitilateralizing Investment Treaties through Most-Favored-Nation Clauses","authors":"S. Schill","doi":"10.15779/Z38Z369","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"I.Introduction ................................................................................................... 496 II.Historical and Doctrinal Background of MFN Clauses ................................ 506 A. The Structure of M FN Clauses ..................................................... 506 B. The Historical Development of MFN Clauses ............................. 509 C. Codification on MFN Clauses by the International Law C om m ission ................................................................................. 5 14 III.Multilateralizing Substantive Investment Protection .................................. 518 A. Importing More Favorable Investor Rights .................................. 519 B. Limits to the Operation of MFN Clauses ..................................... 521 1. Explicit Restrictions of the Scope of Application of MFN C lau ses ................................................................................ 52 1 2. Restrictions of MFN Clauses Based on the Scope of Application of the Basic Treaty ........................................... 523 C. Circumventing Restrictions of MFN Treatment ........................... 525 IV.Multilateralizing Procedural Investment Protection ................................... 528 A. Circumventing Admissibility-Related Access Restrictions to Investor-State Dispute Settlement ................................................ 530","PeriodicalId":325917,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of International Law","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"27","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Berkeley Journal of International Law","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38Z369","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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I.Introduction ................................................................................................... 496 II.Historical and Doctrinal Background of MFN Clauses ................................ 506 A. The Structure of M FN Clauses ..................................................... 506 B. The Historical Development of MFN Clauses ............................. 509 C. Codification on MFN Clauses by the International Law C om m ission ................................................................................. 5 14 III.Multilateralizing Substantive Investment Protection .................................. 518 A. Importing More Favorable Investor Rights .................................. 519 B. Limits to the Operation of MFN Clauses ..................................... 521 1. Explicit Restrictions of the Scope of Application of MFN C lau ses ................................................................................ 52 1 2. Restrictions of MFN Clauses Based on the Scope of Application of the Basic Treaty ........................................... 523 C. Circumventing Restrictions of MFN Treatment ........................... 525 IV.Multilateralizing Procedural Investment Protection ................................... 528 A. Circumventing Admissibility-Related Access Restrictions to Investor-State Dispute Settlement ................................................ 530