The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties makes no express reference to many of the most common canons and interpretative principles derived from international jurisprudence over many years. This volume represents the first modern, freestanding analysis of such canons and principles, their role in treaty interpretation and their relationship with the Vienna Convention regime.
A top-flight roster of respected scholars and practitioners of public international law offers an in-depth examination of, among other things:
- the origins of canons and interpretive principles;
- their utility and limits in treaty interpretation; and
- the application of numerous individual canons and interpretive principles, including effet utile, expressio unius, lex specialis, ejusdem generis, in dubio mitius, in pari materia, ex abundante cautela, the principles of contemporaneity and evolutive interpretation, and more.
Extensive analysis of case law and scholarship provides insightful interpretive guidance across virtually every subfield of public international law. With its valuable insights into when the application of particular canons or principles of interpretation is most likely to be appropriate and persuasive, the volume will be of great value to lawyers representing parties (whether states, corporations or individuals) before international dispute resolution bodies, as well as to judges and arbitrators, legal officials at ministries of foreign affairs, and scholars of public international law.
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Yuri Parkhomenko is an international dispute resolution lawyer in Foley Hoag's International Arbitration and Litigation Department. His practice focuses on the representation of sovereign States before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal on the Law for the Sea, ICSID and ad hoc tribunals in disputes involving sovereignty claims, maritime and land boundary delimitation, treaty interpretation, trans-boundary environmental harm, human rights, and protection of foreign investment. He also advises States in non-contentious matters on a wide range of public international law issues.
Constantinos Salonidis is a partner in Foley Hoag's International Litigation and Arbitration Practice in Washington, D.C. His practice focuses on international dispute resolution, especially in cases before the International Court of Justice and investment treaty arbitration tribunals, in which he represents solely States. Constantinos also serves on the ICSID Panel of Conciliators. He holds the prestigious Diploma in Public International Law of The Hague Academy of International Law (2006), and in 2018 he was the Director of Studies in English for the 2018 public international law session of the Academy.
