Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law

Georges Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, former Chairman of the Appellate Body, World Trade Organization and a member of the Institut de Droit International.Kenneth Keith is Professor Emeritus at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, former judge of the International Court of Justice and a member of the Institut de Droit International.Gabrielle Marceau is Associate Professor at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Senior Counsellor, Legal Affairs, World Trade Organization.Clément Marquet is a PhD candidate at the University of Geneva, Faculty of Law.

The international lawyer and legal scholar faced with a question concerning the evolutionary interpretation of treaties in 2020 will find no better friend than Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law … the book is valuable both in collecting the conclusions of scholars in the field and in providing the reader with the most up-to-date source for decisions of adjudicators and other actors in the different subfields of international law.

• 1. About the Book Gabrielle Marceau and Clément Marquet2. Introduction: A Meta-Question Georges Abi-SaabPART IEVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW GENERALLY3. Evolutionary Interpretation in International Law: Some Short and Less than Trail-Blazing Reflections Robert Kolb4. An Interpreter’s Guide to Static and Evolutive Interpretations: Solving Intertemporal Problems According to the VCLT Christian Djeffal5. Time Present and Time Past: The Intention of the Parties and the Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties Eirik Bjorge6. Using Intertemporal Linguistics to Resolve the Problem at the Origin and Core of the Evolutionary Interpretation Debate Julian Wyatt7. Evolutionary Interpretation: The Relevance of Context Donald McRaePART IIEVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN ATYPICAL INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS8. Evolutionary Interpretation of International Law in National Courts Kenneth Keith9. The Interpretive Work of Treaty Bodies: How They Look at Evolutionary Interpretation, and How Other Courts Look at Them Luigi Crema10. Evolutionary Interpretation of Unilateral Acts of States and International Organisations Paolo PalchettiPART IIIEVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENT LAW11. The Strength of Evolutionary Interpretation in International Human Rights Law Gloria Gaggioli12. The Strasbourg Approach to Evolutionary Interpretation Oliver Dörr13. Environmental Protection as an Object of and Tool for Evolutionary Interpretation Nina Mileva and Marina Fortuna14. The European Court of Human Rights and the Right to a Clean Environment: Evolutionary or Illusory Interpretation?Malgosia Fitzmaurice15. By Men, not Gods: The (Hidden) Evolutionary Interpretation of International Criminal Law in Light of Extrinsic Sources Sévane GaribianPART IVEVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN WTO LAWA. Systemic Approaches to Evolutionary Interpretation16. Understanding the Choice for Evolutionary Interpretation Isabelle Van Damme17. The Illusion of ‘Evolutionary Interpretation’ in WTO Dispute Settlement Graham Cook18. Prospective Linguistics and Trade: The Art of the Deal Clément MarquetB. Evolutionary Interpretation in Practice19. The Evolutionary Treaty Interpretation by the WTO Appellate Body Sondre Torp Helmersen20. Is there Evolution in the Evolutionary Interpretation of WTO Law? Peter Van den Bossche21. Evolutionary Interpretation and the Appellate Body’s Existential Crisis Mariana Clara de Andrade22. Energy Trade in the WTO, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: The Role of Evolutionary Interpretation Jenya GrigorovaPART VEVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN ISDS LAW23. Evolutionary Interpretation in Investment Arbitration: About a Judicial Taboo Makane Moïse Mbengue and Aikaterini Florou24. The Role of State Party Pleadings in the Evolutionary Interpretation of International Investment Agreements Kendra Magraw25. Investment Treaty Signatories’ Joint Interpretation and the Case of the NAFTA Free Trade Commission: Evolutionary Interpretation or Modification? Jennifer Radford, Gregory Tereposky and Kun Hui26. History as Interpretative Context in the Evolutionary Interpretation of FET in International Investment Law 7Charalampos Giannakopoulos and Malvika MongaPART VIEVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION IN EU LAW27. Articulating Evolutionary Interpretation and the Rule of Law: The EU as a Composite Legal Order Based on Relative Rules of Law Nicolas Levrat28. Multilingualism and the Dynamic Interpretation of European Union Law Mattias DerlénPART VIICONCLUSION29. Conclusion Kenneth Keith