MFN Clauses and Substantive Treatment: A Law of Treaties Perspective of the “Conventional Wisdom”
On the big questions, Simon Batifort and J. Benton Heath are plainly right. Dogmatic presumptions about the necessary effect of particular clauses and woolly notions of systemic teleology may distract the interpreter from the task of finding the meaning that represents the intentions of the parties,...
Main Author: | Martins Paparinskis |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2018-01-01
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Series: | AJIL Unbound |
Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2398772318000284/type/journal_article |
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