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Names: Merkouris, Panos, editor. | Føllesdal, Andreas, editor. | Ulfstein, Geir, 1951– editor. | Westerman, Pauline, editor. | Gorobets, Kostia, editor. | Fortuna, Marina, 1995– editor.
Title: Customary international law and its interpretation by international courts : theories, methods, and interactions / edited by Panos Merkouris, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands; Andreas Follesdal, Universitetet i Oslo; Geir Ulfstein, Universitetet i Oslo; Pauline Westerman, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands ; Kostia Gorobets, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands; Marina Fortuna, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands.
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024. | Series: Tric the rules of interpretation of customary international law | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Contents: The illusion of gold-digging : interpretation of state practice / Pauline Westerman – Addressing the chronological paradox : constitutive rules and the constructive interpretation of CIL / Henrique Marcos – Interpreting the plural sources of CIL / Harlan Grant Cohen – Interpretation dynamics in CIL : an entropic approach / Eleni Micha – The application of logic and reason in CIL interpretation / William Worster – The interpretation of ‘direction and control’ in the investor state arbitration : the case of state-owned enterprises / Paula Baldini Miranda da Cruz – The Court of Justice of the EU and CIL interpretation : close encounters of a third kind? / Tamaś Molnaŕ – Judicial effectiveness or judicial ambiguity : is CIL an instrument for judicial activism in excess? / Leoni Ayoub – Judicial dialogue between international courts in the interpretation of customary international human rights law / Silviana Cocan – ‘General principles of law’ and the interpretation of CIL / Craig Eggett – The role of treaties and general principles of law in the interpretation of customary rules / Marina Fortuna – Reconciling conflicting norms of CIL-towards a mode of practical concordance at the ICJ / Raphael Oidtmann – Indicators of coherence and interpretation of CIL / Charalampos Giannakopoulos.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024020480 | ISBN 9781009541329 (hardback) | ISBN 9781009541312 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Customary law, International – Interpretation and construction. | International courts.
Classification: LCC KZ1277 .I58 2024 | DDC 340.5–dc23/eng/20240509
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