Ranking of Treatment Standards in International Investments
Ranking of Treatment Standards in International Investments

Summary/Abstract: Representing the most comprehensive part, of particular importance for international investment law, treatment standards continue to generate a number of differentiations, for whose comprehension and approach is often required to analyze the starting elements that led to the emergence, by splitting, of this branch of law. The provisions on investors and investment treatment in treaty bodies are intended to prevent possible restrictive behavior of the host state government and to impose discipline on its governmental actions, and in order to achieve this objective, the treaties define a set of standards with which host states must comply in their attitude in legal relations with the investors and their investments. This study highlights the rank of treatment standards in international investments as a concept and not as a listing, being used in this context, comparative and quantitative methods, with some tangential elements of maieutics specific to the philosophy of law for the continuous evolution of the particular legal phenomenon.

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