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Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law: Methods and Reasoning Based on the Swiss Example de Odile Ammann

Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law: Methods and Reasoning Based on the Swiss Example: Developments in International Law, cartea 72

Autor Odile Ammann
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 noi 2019
Winner of the Walther Hug Prize 2021. Read more.

In Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law, Odile Ammann examines how domestic judges do and must interpret international law. She analyzes their interpretative methodology and the predictability, clarity, and consistency of their reasoning. Highlighting the main gaps in contemporary international legal scholarship regarding international law in domestic courts, Ammann offers a fresh and thorough theoretical reflection on this topic. Based on a detailed study of the judicial practice, she shows how courts' interpretative method and reasoning can be further improved. She also argues that interpretative methods must be taken more seriously in international law. While she primarily uses the Swiss example to illustrate her claims, the basic tenets of her analysis apply to any domestic legal context.
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ISBN-13: 9789004409866
ISBN-10: 9004409866
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill | Nijhoff
Seria Developments in International Law

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction
1 The Subject and Basic Claims of This Book
2 Structure and Approach
3 The Benchmarks of Legality and Quality

Part 1
What Is Interpretation?

1 The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts – A Topic That Matters
1 Introduction
2 The State of the Literature
2.1Descriptive Bias
2.2Domestic Bias
2.3‘Amour Impossible’
2.4Legal Imperative
2.5Swiss Gap
3 Why Switzerland?
4 Why Courts?
5 Why Domestic Courts?
6 Why International Law?
7 Why Focus on the Law’s Interpretative Methods?

2 Terminology and Conceptual Apparatus
1 Introduction
2 Legal Interpretation
3 Judicial Interpretation
4 Domestic Judicial Interpretation
5 Methods of Interpretation
5.1Normative Interpretative Theories
5.2Structural and Axiological Interpretative Principles
5.3Rules
5.4Auxiliary Means
5.5Argument Types
6 The Interpretation of International Law

3 Interpreting International Law in Context – Domestic Specificities
1 Introduction
2 The Swiss State and International Law
2.1Swiss Foreign Relations Law
2.2International Law in the Swiss Legal Order
3 Legal Principles of Political Organization
3.1Federalism
3.2Linguistic Diversity
3.3The Rule of Law
3.4Semi-Direct Democracy
3.5The Federal Assembly qua ‘Supreme Authority of the Confederation’
4 The Swiss Judiciary
4.1The Structure of the Swiss Judiciary
4.2Characteristics of Swiss Courts’ Interpretative Activity
5 Conclusion

Part 2
Why Interpret?

4 The Legal Effect of Domestic Rulings in International Law
1 Introduction
2 Domestic Rulings as Means of Enforcement of International Law
3 Domestic Rulings as Contributors to the Sources and Interpretation of International Law
3.1Domestic Rulings in the Sources of International Law (Art. 38(1)(a)– (c) icj Statute)
3.2Domestic Rulings as Auxiliary Means (Art. 38(1)(d) icj Statute)
4 Conclusion

Part 3
How to Interpret?
5 The Need for Interpretative Methods in International Law
1 Introduction
2 Why Does the Law Need Interpretative Methods? a Comparison With Interpretation Outside the Law
2.1Similarities
2.2Differences
3 The Origins of Interpretative Methods in Domestic and International Law
3.1Domestic Law
3.2International Law
3.3The Relationship between the Interpretative Methods of Domestic and International Law
4 Three Reasons for Requiring States to Use Interpretative Methods
4.1Vagueness
4.2Counter-Majoritarian Decisions
4.3Judicial Politics
5 Three Objections against Interpretative Methods
5.1The ‘Vague Methods’ Objection
5.2The ‘Self-Made Methods’ Objection
5.3The ‘Outcome Over Process’ Objection
6 Conclusion

6 The Interpretative Methods of International Law: What Are They, and Why Use Them?
1 Introduction
2 The Interpretative Methods of International Law
2.1Textual Interpretation
2.2Systematic Interpretation
2.3Teleological Interpretation
2.4Historical Interpretation
2.5The Relationship between the Various Interpretative Methods
3 Conclusion

7 Swiss Courts and Treaty Interpretation
1 Introduction
2 Domestic Courts and the Methods of Treaty Interpretation
2.1Introductory Remarks
2.2Exposing and Evaluating the Practice
3 Swiss Courts and the Methods of Treaty Interpretation
3.1The Swiss Federal Tribunal and Treaty Interpretation before the vclt’s Entry into Force (1954–1980)
3.2The Swiss Federal Tribunal and Treaty Interpretation after the vclt’s Entry into Force and before Its Ratification by Switzerland (1980–1990)
3.3Swiss Courts and Treaty Interpretation after the vclt’s Entry into Force in Switzerland (1990–2016)
3.4Relationship with Interpretative Methods under Swiss Law
3.5Comparing the Practice of Swiss Courts
3.6Putting the Swiss Judicial Practice into Perspective
4 Evaluation

8 Swiss Courts and the Interpretation of Unwritten International Law
1 Introduction
2 Customary International Law
2.1Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of Customary International Law
2.2Swiss Courts and the Interpretation of Customary International Law
3 General Principles of International Law
3.1Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of General Principles of International Law
3.2Swiss Courts and the Interpretation of General Principles of International Law
4 Evaluation

Conclusion and Recommendations
1 The Argument Defended in This Book
2 Recommendations
2.1Improving the Legality and the Quality of Domestic Rulings
2.2 Enhancing the Accessibility of Domestic Rulings

Bibliography
Index

Notă biografică

Odile Ammann, Ph.D., University of Fribourg, LL.M., Harvard, is a senior researcher at the University of Zurich. Her work focuses on international law and legal theory, e.g., 'The European Court of Human Rights and Swiss Politics' (2018).