How Interpretation Makes International Law - On Semantic Change and Normative Twists

Zusatztext Readers of Venzke's book will find it the work of a talented writer and lawyer-a truly enjoyable read, and this being backed by solid research and well-structured arguments, the whole is a brilliantly executed piece of work. Informationen zum Autor Ingo Venzke is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam. He completed his doctorate in law at the University of Frankfurt while working at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg where he co-directed a research project on the exercise of public authority by international courts. Ingo was a Hauser Research Scholar at New York University and a Visiting Scholar at the Cegla Center for the Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, Tel Aviv University. He received his LL.M. from the University of London and his B.A. in International Relations from the University of Dresden. Klappentext An account of how the practice of interpretation makes international law, drawing specific attention to the increasing authority of international courts and institutions, this book analyses the role that the language plays in shaping international law. It addresses the key issue of how it contributes to the evolution of international norms.Winner of the 2014 European Society of International Law Book Prize Zusammenfassung An account of how the practice of interpretation makes international law, drawing specific attention to the increasing authority of international courts and institutions, this book analyses the role that the language plays in shaping international law. It addresses the key issue of how it contributes to the evolution of international norms.

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• Authors: Ingo Venzke, Ingo (Research Fellow and Lecturer Venzke, Venzke Ingo
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2012
• EAN: 9780199657674
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965767-4
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Courts, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Legal Reference / Law Profession, International Organisations & Institutions, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Treaties & Other Sources Of International Law, Public international law: treaties and other sources, International law: courts and procedures, International courts & procedures