Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law

by Georges Abi-Saab (Editor), Kenneth Keith (Editor), Gabrielle Marceau (Editor), Clément Marquet (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509929900
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/05/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
File size:	926 KB

About the Author

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.
Georges Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and former Chairman of the Appellate Body, World Trade Organization.
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.
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.
Clément Marquet is Research and Teaching Assistant at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

The international lawyer and legal scholar faced with a question concerning the evolutionary interpretation of treaties in 2020 will find no better friend than Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law … the book is valuable both in collecting the conclusions of scholars in the field and in providing the reader with the most up—to—date source for decisions of adjudicators and other actors in the different subfields of international law.” —Geraldo Vidigal, Journal of International Economic Law

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