Recent developments in investor-state arbitration portrays most-favoured-nation (MFN) standard as a limitless provision to attract third party treaties. There is no jurisprudence constante as to its nature and scope under international investment law. Textual differences of the clause in...

Bilateral and regional investment agreements have proliferated in the last decade and new ones are still being negotiated. Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) clauses link investment agreements by ensuring that the parties to one treaty provide treatment no less favourable than the treatment they provide...