Bianchi Andrea, Peat Daniel, Windsor Matthew (eds.) Interpretation in International Law

Oxford University Press, 2015. — 433 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–872574–9.The genesis of this collection of essays was a conference on interpretation in international law, which we convened at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge in August 2013. We were delighted to receive over 200 abstracts from around the world in response to our call for papers, a testament to the enduring importance of the conference theme for international law scholars and practitioners. As the conference took shape, we were drawn towards selecting papers that approached the practice and process of interpretation in a cross-cutting way, rather than those that operated according to the conventional mores of international law as a professional discipline. In choosing keynote speakers and assembling panels, we deliberately strove to foster methodological pluralism, highlighting fresh and innovative approaches to a classical topic.Table of Cases.
List of Abbreviations.
List of Contributors.Playing the Game of Interpretation: On Meaning and Metaphor in International Law.
The Game of Interpretation in International Law: The Players, the Cards, and Why the Game is Worth the Candle.
The Object.
Rhetoric, Persuasion, and Interpretation in International Law.
The Existential Function of Interpretation in International Law.
Th Multidimensional Process of Interpretation: Content-Determination and Law­-Ascertainment Distinguished.
The Players.
Interpretation and the International Legal Profession: Between Duty and Aspiration.
Interpretive Communities in International Law.
Interpretative Authority and the International Judiciary.
The Rules.
Th Vienna Rules,
Evolutionary Interpretation, and the Intentions of the Parties.
Accounting for Diffrence in Treaty Interpretation Over Time.
Interpreting Transplanted Treaty Rules.
The Strategies.
A Genealogy of Textualism in Treaty Interpretation.
Theorizing Precedent in International Law.
Interpretation in International Law as a Transcultural Project.
Playing the Game of Game-Playing.
Towards a Politics of Hermeneutics.
Cognitive Frames of Interpretation in International Law.
Is Interpretation in International Law a Game?Interpretation—An Exact Art.