{"id":5108,"date":"2018-04-24T08:24:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T13:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2024-08-09T18:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:28:28","slug":"fair-and-equitable-treatment-its-interaction-with-the-minimum-standard-and-its-customary-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2018\/04\/24\/fair-and-equitable-treatment-its-interaction-with-the-minimum-standard-and-its-customary-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair and Equitable Treatment: Its interaction with the minimum standard and its customary status"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>By Patrick Dumberry, Published by Brill | Nijhoff, March 2018<\/h3>\n<p>The fair and equitable treatment (<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips69'>FET<\/span>) standard has become one of the most controversial provisions found in bilateral investment treaties (BITs). This book examines the interaction between the minimum standard of treatment (MST) and the FET standard and the question of why states started referring to the former in their BITs. It also addresses the question of whether FET should be considered as an autonomous standard under BITs. Rebutting the controversial proposition that the FET standard should now be considered as a rule of customary international law, the author shows that states\u2019 practice of including FET clauses in their BITs is not uniform and consistent enough and that states also lack the necessary opinio juris. Available at <a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/abstract\/title\/37944\">https:\/\/brill.com\/abstract\/title\/37944<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips63','Bilateral investment treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips69','fair and equitable treatment'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips100','investissement direct \u00e9tranger'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips114','Sistema de Tribunales de Inversiones'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips118','Union europ\u00e9enne'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips119','Uni\u00f3n Europea'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book examines the interaction between the minimum standard of treatment (MST) and the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips69'>FET<\/span> standard and the question of why states started referring to the former in their BITs.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips63','Bilateral investment treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips69','fair and equitable treatment'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips114','Sistema de Tribunales de Inversiones'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips118','Union europ\u00e9enne'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips119','Uni\u00f3n Europea'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}