Tarcisio Gazzini is Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne.

This excellent book is one of a small number which examine interpretation of treaties through study of the decisions and awards of tribunals working in single specialist areas of law...The consideration offered in the book of how investment treaties are, and are to be, interpreted is most valuable both for analysis of investment arbitrations and as to how some of the principles of treaty interpretation are applied in practice.

• 1. Introduction 2. Overview of International Investment Treaties 3. Main Features of International Investment Treaties 4. Ordinary Meaning of the Terms of the Treaty 5. Context 6. Object(s) and Purpose(s) 7. Subsequent Agreements and Subsequent Practice 8. Other Rules of International Law 9. Special Meaning 10. Supplementary Means 11. Plurilingual Treaties 12. Interpretative Value of Arbitral Decisions 13. Interpretative Value of Scholarly Writings 14. The Role of States in the Interpretation of Investment Treaties 15. Conclusions

Tarcisio Gazzini is Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne.

This excellent book is one of a small number which examine interpretation of treaties through study of the decisions and awards of tribunals working in single specialist areas of law...The consideration offered in the book of how investment treaties are, and are to be, interpreted is most valuable both for analysis of investment arbitrations and as to how some of the principles of treaty interpretation are applied in practice.

• 1. Introduction 2. Overview of International Investment Treaties 3. Main Features of International Investment Treaties 4. Ordinary Meaning of the Terms of the Treaty 5. Context 6. Object(s) and Purpose(s) 7. Subsequent Agreements and Subsequent Practice 8. Other Rules of International Law 9. Special Meaning 10. Supplementary Means 11. Plurilingual Treaties 12. Interpretative Value of Arbitral Decisions 13. Interpretative Value of Scholarly Writings 14. The Role of States in the Interpretation of Investment Treaties 15. Conclusions

Tarcisio Gazzini is Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne.

This excellent book is one of a small number which examine interpretation of treaties through study of the decisions and awards of tribunals working in single specialist areas of law...The consideration offered in the book of how investment treaties are, and are to be, interpreted is most valuable both for analysis of investment arbitrations and as to how some of the principles of treaty interpretation are applied in practice.

• 1. Introduction 2. Overview of International Investment Treaties 3. Main Features of International Investment Treaties 4. Ordinary Meaning of the Terms of the Treaty 5. Context 6. Object(s) and Purpose(s) 7. Subsequent Agreements and Subsequent Practice 8. Other Rules of International Law 9. Special Meaning 10. Supplementary Means 11. Plurilingual Treaties 12. Interpretative Value of Arbitral Decisions 13. Interpretative Value of Scholarly Writings 14. The Role of States in the Interpretation of Investment Treaties 15. Conclusions