The interpretation of acts and rules in public international law / Alexander Orakhelashvili.

This monograph examines international legal regulation, analyses how it interacts with non-legal factors, and seeks to understand and confront the alleged inherent ambiguity and indeterminacy.

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Main Author: Orakhelashvili, Alexander
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford monographs in international law.
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Table of Contents:
  • Doctrinal treatment of the effectiveness of legal regulation
  • Characteristics and implications of the effectiveness of legal regulation
  • The essence of the threshold of legal regulation
  • Customary law and inherent rules
  • Fact as non-law and the limits on its relevance
  • Interest as non-law
  • Values as non-law
  • Quasi-normative non-law
  • Conceptual aspects of interpretation
  • Treaty interpretation : rules and methods
  • Treaty interpretation : effectiveness and presumptions
  • Interpretation of jurisdictional instruments
  • Interpretation of unilateral acts and statements
  • Interpretation of institutional decisions
  • Interpretation of customary rules
  • The agencies of interpretation
  • The essence of and response to the indeterminacy of treaty provisions
  • Equity and equitable considerations in treaties.