Academic

Kammerhofer on Orakhelashvili on Interpretation in International Law

By Lawrence Solum

Jörg Kammerhofer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Law) has posted Book Review: Alexander Orakhelashvili, the Interpretation of Acts and Rules in Public International Law (European Journal of International Law, Vol. 20, pp. 1282-1286, 2009) on SSRN.  Here is the a taste:

Authors working on treaty interpretation are placed in a difficult position nowadays. They have to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis, between foundering on the shoals of ignorance about language and being drawn into the whirlpool of linguistic philosophy. It is understandable that the author ? until recently based at Oxford ? would want to avoid the latter more than the former, but the unquestioned adoption of the plain meaning doctrine in the face of all those who have ventured further into the theoretical realm is perhaps too problematic to be upheld.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on August 05, 2010 (boomark / email).