Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals

This book examines an unexplored method of interpretation: the use of domestic law in the interpretation of international law.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The limits of the Vienna Convention; 2. Domestic law in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice; 3. The interpretation of schedules of commitments in the WTO; 4. International investment law and the public law analogy; 5. Consensus doctrine in the European Court of Human Rights; 6. Domestic law and system building in the ICTY; Conclusion.

About the author

Daniel Peat is an Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Universiteit Leiden. Before joining Universiteit Leiden, he worked at the International Court of Justice as an Associate Legal Officer for President Abdulqawi A. Yusuf. Daniel was awarded a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Gonville and Caius College and a recipient of the WM Tapp Studentship. He is a graduate of The Graduate Institute, Geneva, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was awarded the Lauterpacht/Higgins Prize for Public International Law. Daniel co-edited Interpretation in International Law (2015) and acts as Rapporteur for the International Law Association Study Group on the Content and Evolution of the Rules of Interpretation.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Peat, Daniel (Universiteit Leiden) Peat, Peat Daniel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781108415477
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41547-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / International, International Law, comparative law, EU (European Union), International institutions, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, EU & European institutions