Explains the insufficiencies of the current VCLT rules of treaty interpretation in addressing some traditional treaty interpretation issues and the challenges encountered by the current rules
Provides a comprehensive review of the codification of the VCLT concerning customary rules of treaty interpretation and explains the desirability of a second round of treaty interpretation
Proposes certain treaty interpretation rules to be codified to address the fragmentation of treaties, the coordination between different treaties, and the need of introducing external values, including human rights, into a treaty through treaty interpretation to make treaty interpretation more consistent and more in line with the shared value of international community
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 241 mm
Breite: 160 mm
Dicke: 27 mm
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ISBN-13
978-981-10-6865-2 (9789811068652)
DOI
10.1007/978-981-10-6866-9
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Chang-fa Lo has been Justice of the Constitutional Court of the ROC (Taiwan) since October 2011. Prior to his current judicial position, he was the Chair Professor and Lifetime Distinguished Professor at National Taiwan University (NTU); Dean of NTU College of Law; Director of Asian Center for WTO and International Health Law and Policy of NTU College of Law (ACWH); Director of Center for Ethics, Law and Society in Biomedicine and Technology of NTU; Commissioner of Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission; Commissioner of Taiwan's International Trade Commission; and legal advisor for Taiwan's GATT/WTO accession negotiations. In his capacity as the Director of ACWH, Professor Lo launched two English journals, namely, the
Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy and the
Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal (CAA) in 2006 and 2008, respectively. In his tenure as Dean of NTU College of Law, he also launched an English journal, the
NTU Law Review. Prior to histeaching career, he practiced law in Taipei. He received his SJD degree from Harvard University Law School in 1989. He was appointed by the WTO as a panelist for
DS332 Brazil-Measures Affecting Imports of Retreaded Tyre in 2006,
DS468 Ukraine-Definitive Safeguard Measures on Certain Passenger Cars in 2014, and as a member of the Permanent Group of Experts under the SCM Agreement of WTO in 2008. He is also the chairman of the Asia WTO Research Network (AWRN) since 2013. He is the author of 13 books (including the current one) and the editor of 6 books, and has authored about 100 journal papers and book chapters.
