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27 Berkeley J. Int'l Law 496 (2009)
Mulitilateralizing Investment Treaties through Most-Favored-Nation Clauses

handle is hein.journals/berkjintlw27 and id is 500 raw text is: Multilateralizing Investment Treaties Through Most-Favored-Nation Clauses Stephan W. Schill* Table of Contents 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 * Rechtsanwalt (admitted to the bar in Germany); Attorney-at-Law (New York); Interna- tional Arbitration Law Clerk to The Honorable Charles N. Brower, Arbitrator, 20 Essex Street, London; Dr. iur. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitiit Frankfurt am Main, 2008); LL.M. International Legal Studies (New York University, 2006); LL.M. Europaisches und Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht (Universitat Augsburg 2002). Portions of this article are adapted from STEPHAN SCHILL, Multilateralization through Most-Favored-Nation Treatment, in THE MULTILATERALIZA- TION OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW (Cambridge University Press 2009). Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.

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