The interpretation of acts and rules in public international law
By: Alexander Orakhelashvili.
Series: Oxford monographs in international law
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9780199546220
Subjects: International law -- Interpretation and construction; Treaties -- Interpretation and construction
Description: This monograph examines international legal regulation, analyses how it interacts with non-legal factors, and seeks to understand and confront the alleged inherent ambiguity and indeterminacy.
Table of contents: title: Doctrinal treatment of the effectiveness of legal regulation; title: Characteristics and implications of the effectiveness of legal regulation; title: The essence of the threshold of legal regulation; title: Customary law and inherent rules; title: Fact as non-law and the limits on its relevance; title: Interest as non-law; title: Values as non-law; title: Quasi-normative non-law; title: Conceptual aspects of interpretation; title: Treaty interpretation: rules and methods; title: Treaty interpretation: effectiveness and presumptions; title: Interpretation of jurisdictional instruments; title: Interpretation of unilateral acts and statements; title: Interpretation of institutional decisions; title: Interpretation of customary rules; title: The agencies of interpretation; title: The essence of and response to the indeterminacy of treaty provisions; title: Equity and equitable considerations in treaties.