| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 399 pages) |
| Contents |
Playing the game of interpretation : on meaning and metaphor in international law / Daniel Peat and Matthew Windsor -- The game of interpretation in international law : the players, the cards, and why the game is worth the candle -- Rhetoric, persuasion, and interpretation in international law / Iain Scobbie -- The existential function of interpretation in international law / Duncan B Hollis -- The multidimensional process of interpretation : content-determination and law-ascertainment distinguished / Jean d'Aspremont -- Interpretation and the international legal profession : between duty and aspiration / Andraz̆ Zidar -- Interpretative communities in international law / Michael Waibel -- Interpretative authority and the international judiciary / Gleider Hernández -- The Vienna Rules, evolutionary interpretation and the intentions of the parties / Eirik Bjorge -- Accounting for difference in treaty interpretation over time / Julian Arato -- Interpreting transplanted treaty rules / Anne-Marie Carstens -- A genealogy of textualism in treaty interpretation / Fuad Zarbiyev -- Theorizing precedent in international law / Harlan Grant Cohen -- Interpretation in international law as a transcultural project / René Provost -- Towards a politics of hermeneutics / Jens Olesen -- Cognitive frames of interpretation in international law / Martin Wählisch -- Is interpretation in international law a game? / Ingo Venzke -- Interpretation : an exact art / Philip Allott |
| Summary |
Bringing international legal scholars together to engage in sustained reflection on the theme of interpretation, this volume is creatively structured around the metaphor of the game. Through a series of diverse contributions, it reveals interpretation to be an inescapable feature of all areas of international law |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
International law -- Interpretation and construction.
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LAW -- International.
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Interprétation des lois.
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Conventions internationales.
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Traités.
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Droit international.
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International law -- Interpretation and construction
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Legal hermeneutics and legal interpretation.
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Law of treaties.
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Public international law.
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Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Vienna, 23 May 1969)
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Philosophy of law.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bianchi, Andrea, 1963 July 4- editor.
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Peat, Daniel, editor.
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Windsor, Matthew, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191792731 |
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019179273X |
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9780191038693 |
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0191038695 |
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0198725744 |
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9780198725749 |
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