Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5099-4670-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

This unique book brings together leading experts from diverse areas of public international law to offer a comprehensive overview of the approaches to evolutionary interpretation in different international legal regimes. It begins by asking what interpretation is, offering the views of expert authors on the question, its components and definitions. It then comments on situations that have called for evolutionary interpretation in different international legal regimes, including general international law, environmental law, human rights law, EU law, investment law, international trade law, and how domestic courts have, on occasions, interpreted treaties and other international legal instruments in an evolutionary manner.

This timely, authoritative compendium offers an in-depth understanding of the processes at work in evolutionary interpretation as well as a prime selection of the current trends and future challenges.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abi-Saab, Georges

Keith, Kenneth

Marceau, Gabrielle

Marquet, Clément

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. About the Book

Gabrielle Marceau and Clément Marquet
2. Introduction: A Meta-Question

Georges Abi-Saab

PART I
EVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW GENERALLY
3. Evolutionary Interpretation in International Law: Some Short and Less than Trail-Blazing Reflections

Robert Kolb
4. An Interpreter's Guide to Static and Evolutive Interpretations: Solving Intertemporal Problems According to the VCLT

Christian Djeffal
5. Time Present and Time Past: The Intention of the Parties and the Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties

Eirik Bjorge
6. Using Intertemporal Linguistics to Resolve the Problem at the Origin and Core of the Evolutionary Interpretation Debate

Julian Wyatt
7. Evolutionary Interpretation: The Relevance of Context

Donald McRae

PART II
EVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN ATYPICAL INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS
8. Evolutionary Interpretation of International Law in National Courts

Kenneth Keith
9. The Interpretive Work of Treaty Bodies: How They Look at Evolutionary Interpretation, and How Other Courts Look at Them

Luigi Crema
10. Evolutionary Interpretation of Unilateral Acts of States and International Organisations

Paolo Palchetti

PART III
EVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENT LAW
11. The Strength of Evolutionary Interpretation in International Human Rights Law

Gloria Gaggioli
12. The Strasbourg Approach to Evolutionary Interpretation

Oliver Dörr
13. Environmental Protection as an Object of and Tool for Evolutionary Interpretation

Nina Mileva and Marina Fortuna
14. The European Court of Human Rights and the Right to a Clean Environment: Evolutionary or Illusory Interpretation?
Malgosia Fitzmaurice
15. By Men, not Gods: The (Hidden) Evolutionary Interpretation of International Criminal Law in Light of Extrinsic Sources

Sévane Garibian

PART IV
EVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN WTO LAW
A. Systemic Approaches to Evolutionary Interpretation
16. Understanding the Choice for Evolutionary Interpretation

Isabelle Van Damme
17. The Illusion of 'Evolutionary Interpretation' in WTO Dispute Settlement

Graham Cook
18. Prospective Linguistics and Trade: The Art of the Deal

Clément Marquet
B. Evolutionary Interpretation in Practice
19. The Evolutionary Treaty Interpretation by the WTO Appellate Body

Sondre Torp Helmersen
20. Is there Evolution in the Evolutionary Interpretation of WTO Law?

Peter Van den Bossche
21. Evolutionary Interpretation and the Appellate Body's Existential Crisis

Mariana Clara de Andrade
22. Energy Trade in the WTO, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: The Role of Evolutionary Interpretation

Jenya Grigorova

PART V
EVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN ISDS LAW
23. Evolutionary Interpretation in Investment Arbitration: About a Judicial Taboo

Makane Moïse Mbengue and Aikaterini Florou
24. The Role of State Party Pleadings in the Evolutionary Interpretation of International Investment Agreements

Kendra Magraw
25. Investment Treaty Signatories' Joint Interpretation and the Case of the NAFTA Free Trade Commission: Evolutionary Interpretation or Modification?

Jennifer Radford, Gregory Tereposky and Kun Hui
26. History as Interpretative Context in the Evolutionary Interpretation of FET in International Investment Law 7
Charalampos Giannakopoulos and Malvika Monga

PART VI
EVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN EU LAW
27. Articulating Evolutionary Interpretation and the Rule of Law: The EU as a Composite Legal Order Based on Relative Rules of Law

Nicolas Levrat
28. Multilingualism and the Dynamic Interpretation of European Union Law

Mattias Derlén

PART VII
CONCLUSION
29. Conclusion

Kenneth Keith

Über Autor(innen)

Abi-Saab, Georges
Georges Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and former Chairman of the Appellate Body, World Trade Organization.

Keith, Kenneth
Kenneth Keith Professor Emeritus at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he taught for more than 20 years, and a member of the Institut de Droit International.

Marquet, Clément
Clément Marquet is Research and Teaching Assistant at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva.

Marceau, Gabrielle
Appointed as a lecturer in 2000, Gabrielle Marceau, PhD, became an associate professor in the Department of Public International Law and International Organization at the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) in 2005. She teaches World Trade Organization (WTO) law, supervises numerous master's theses and doctoral dissertations, and organizes conferences and research seminars. She also created a doctoral seminar.

She is also visiting professor at the University of Ottawa, Law Faculty - Hyman Soloway Chair, and at other institutions. Professor Marceau serves on several scientific councils promoting international economic law. She has been the president of the Society of International Economic Law, is a member of the board of directors of the Geneva Society for Law and Legislation, and is a Counsellor of the American Society of International Law. Professor Marceau is a specialist in dispute settlement and the legal relationships between international trade and non-commercial considerations (such as environment, human rights, labor, etc.), with more than 125 publications to her name.

Gabrielle Marceau has also worked at the World Trade Organization for over 30 years, serving as a legal adviser in international disputes, in the Cabinet of Director-General Pascal Lamy, and in the Economic Research and Statistics Division.

Georges Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, former Chairman of the Appellate Body, World Trade Organization and a member of the Institut de Droit International.
Kenneth Keith is Professor Emeritus at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, former judge of the International Court of Justice and a member of the Institut de Droit International.
Gabrielle Marceau is Associate Professor at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Senior Counsellor, Legal Affairs, World Trade Organization.
Clément Marquet is a PhD candidate at the University of Geneva, Faculty of Law.