The International Minimum Standard of Treatment and Human Rights: A Pedigree in the Rule of Law - European Investment Law and Arbitration Review View The International Minimum Standard of Treatment and Human Rights: A Pedigree in the Rule of Law by - European Investment Law and Arbitration Review The International Minimum Standard of Treatment and Human Rights: A Pedigree in the Rule of Law 1 1

Human rights and the international minimum standard of treatment of aliens share a common origin and a similar pedigree in the rule of law. Like human rights, the substantive standards of investment treaties protect individual persons or entities against specified acts of governmental authority. That this is so does not diminish those standards’ contribution to the rule of law.

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