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The Most-Favoured Nation Principle, Equal Protection, And Migration Policy, Tomer Broude
The Most-Favoured Nation Principle, Equal Protection, And Migration Policy, Tomer Broude
International Migrants Bill of Rights Symposium
This article discusses the theoretical interaction between the economically grounded most-favoured nation (MFN) treatment principle and the human-rights based concept of equal protection of migrants. In the multilateral law of international trade, MFN is an article of faith that lays a valid claim to having significantly contributed to the success of the trade-liberalizing and welfare-enhancing role of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade /World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO). Above and beyond its trade-related economic roles, when it applies to individuals of different nationalities, the logic of MFN also appears to generally conform to fundamental principles of equal protection of the …