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By adopting a comparative analysis of the practice of five international courts and tribunals, this book systematically describes and analyses the use of domestic law to interpret international law. The findings of the book, which blends doctrinal and theoretical approaches, will be of interest to practitioners and academic researchers alike.
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.
Summary
By adopting a comparative analysis of the practice of five international courts and tribunals, this book systematically describes and analyses the use of domestic law to interpret international law. The findings of the book, which blends doctrinal and theoretical approaches, will be of interest to practitioners and academic researchers alike.
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'Tribute must be paid to Daniel Peat for his masterful dissertation, offering a brilliant analysis of the complex issue of the interaction between domestic and international law in international dispute settlement. It explores the profound implications of this normative interaction, shifting the perspective to the comparative reasoning of international adjudicators. The analysis of different jurisdictional settings, the diachronic approach and the sharp reading of the case law make this book a fascinating piece of scholarship.' Hélène Ruiz Fabri, Director, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law
