United Nations [UN]; World Bank; International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes [ICSID]
Subject(s)
Most-favoured-nation treatment (MFN) — Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties — Concurring, dissenting, separate, joint or individual opinions — Waiting period
Core Issue(s)
Whether a treaty’s requirement that a claimant must first seek recourse to a respondent’s domestic courts constituted a jurisdictional requirement failure that precluded the matter from being heard by an international arbitral tribunal. — Whether a treaty’s most-favoured nation clause may grant a tribunal jurisdiction over a dispute where a claimant may have otherwise failed to meet an express jurisdictional requirement.
