Static and evolutive treaty interpretation : a functional reconstruction / Christian Djeffal.
2016
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Title
Static and evolutive treaty interpretation : a functional reconstruction / Christian Djeffal.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Call Number
KZ1304 .D54 2016
ISBN
9781107118317 (hardback)
110711831X (hardback)
110711831X (hardback)
Description
xxvi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)909777323
Summary
"How should international treaties be interpreted over time? This book offers fresh insights on this age-old question. The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) sets out the rules for interpretation, stipulating that treaties should be interpreted inter alia according to the 'ordinary meaning' of the text. Evolutive interpretation has been considered since the times of Gentili and Grotius, but this is the first book to systematically address what evolutive interpretation looks like in reality. It sets out to address how and under what circumstances it can be said that the interpretation of a treaty evolves, and under what circumstances it remains static. With the VCLT as its point of departure, this study develops a functional reconstruction of the rules of treaty interpretation, and explores and analyses how the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights have approached the issue."--Publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-400) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of figures
viii
List of tables
ix
Preface
xi
List of abbreviations
xix
Table of cases
xx
pt. I
Definitions, assumptions and method
1
1.
Two paths to interpretative method
3
1.1.
What we are talking about: interpretative method and methodology
3
1.2.
Who we are talking about: international courts
5
1.3.
Interpretation
8
1.4.
Evolutive interpretation
18
2.
Suggested solutions
28
2.1.
Suggested solutions after the coming into force of the VCLT
28
2.2.
Discussion within the ILC and at the Vienna Conference
37
2.3.
Suggested solutions prior to drafting the VCLT
48
2.4.
Transferring solutions from other jurisdictions
54
3.
Mode of inquiry: functional reconstruction
67
3.1.
problem of circularity
67
3.2.
Functional reconstruction
71
3.3.
Functional reconstruction in practice
76
pt. II
rule of interpretation in the VCLT: method and methodology
81
4.
Historical account of the means of interpretation
83
4.1.
Functional reconstruction in historical perspective
83
4.2.
mechanical phase
85
4.3.
flexible phase
91
4.4.
phase of codification
97
4.5.
Summary and explanation
106
5.
Cardinal cores of the rule: features of the process
109
5.1.
nature of the rule core: legality
109
5.2.
means core: techniques
114
5.3.
activity core: balancing and weighing
126
5.4.
core of argumentative weight and hierarchy: 2.5 steps
129
5.5.
core of openness: broad and treaty related
134
5.6.
Synthesis: art not science
138
5.7.
Finale: the function as the core of the cores
140
6.
Interpretative knots: the system of the VCLT revisited
147
6.1.
goal knot
147
6.2.
Interpretation in good faith
150
6.3.
Ordinary and special meaning of the terms of the treaty
153
6.4.
Context
157
6.5.
Object and purpose
158
6.6.
Subsequent agreements and practice
162
6.7.
Relevant rules of international law
167
6.8.
Travaux preparatories
170
6.9.
Circumstances of the conclusion of the treaty
171
6.10.
Other supplementary means of interpretation: facing the intertemporal knot
172
6.11.
Executive summary
181
7.
Shout of encore: evolutive interpretation in the context of the VCLT
183
7.1.
Express regulation
184
7.2.
Reservations
189
7.3.
Temporal applicability
192
7.4.
Internal law
193
7.5.
Amendment
193
7.6.
Norm conflict
194
7.7.
Invalidity, termination and suspension
195
7.8.
Conclusions and reflection on intertemporal openness
201
pt. III
Court practice
203
8.
Profiling courts: a framework of analysis
205
8.1.
Power: the actor dimension
208
8.2.
Perception: the material dimension
210
8.3.
Pace: the temporal dimension
211
9.
International Court of Justice: peacemakers and disputants
214
9.1.
Institutional aspects
214
9.2.
Stocktaking
216
9.3.
General approaches
234
9.4.
Justificatory patterns
251
9.5.
Summary
269
10.
European Court of Human Rights: an aging activist
272
10.1.
Institutional aspects
273
10.2.
Stocktaking: intertemporal instances
278
10.3.
General approach
301
10.4.
Justificatory patterns
314
10.5.
Summary and outlook
338
pt. IV
Summary and conclusions
345
11.
Summary and conclusions
347
11.1.
Part I: definition of the problem, suggested solutions, mode of inquiry
347
11.2.
Part II: the rule of interpretation
350
11.3.
Part III: court practice
354
11.4.
Intertemporal openness as the solution and not the problem
357
Appendix 1
Schemes of interpretation
359
Appendix 2
Sample reservation clauses
367
Appendix 3
Sample conditional interpretative declaration clauses
368
Bibliography
369
Index
401