In association with the International Commission of Jurists

March 2009

02 Mar

I found comments of Richard Gardiner on the New Haven School very useful and indeed I ask myself frequently a question as to its continuing salience. I have recently researched the issue of dynamic interpretation of treaties in particular in relation to the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. The Tyrer and the Golder cases are generally treated as the leading cases illustrating the dynamic...

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02 Mar

I am most grateful for this opportunity to thank Opinio Juris for hosting discussion of Treaty Interpretation and, in particular, Duncan Hollis for setting up the event. The rules of treaty interpretation codified in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Articles 31-33, have now been around for 40 years, but only in the last 15 has their use become quite widespread....

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02 Mar

As I mentioned last week, we're pleased to host Richard Gardiner (University College London) for the next three days for a discussion of his book, Treaty Interpretation.  In addition to comments by our regular contributors, we've invited several distinguished treaty experts to respond to his work, including Isabelle van Damme (Clare College, Cambridge), Malgosia Fitzmaurice (University of London, Queen Mary), and Jan Klabbers...

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01 Mar

An interesting piece from Wired Science on a new article concerning the evolution of cooperation among self-interested individuals. The article focuses on the Prisoner's Dilemma, that old chestnut of game theory, described in this way in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Tanya and Cinque have been arrested for robbing the Hibernia Savings Bank and placed in separate isolation cells. Both care...

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