How interpretation makes international law : on semantic change and normative twists. - Venzke, Ingo. ([Place of publication not identified] : Oxford University Press, 2014)
IV. ADJUDICATION IN THE GATT/WTO: MAKING GENERAL EXCEPTIONS IN TRADE LAW p.135 -- A. International adjudicators as actors in legal discourse, p.139 -- 1. Historiography: Longing for international adjudication, p.140 -- 2. Judicial decisions and precedents, p.144 -- 3. The GATT/WTO context, p.147 -- B. Article XX in the era of the GATT, p.150 -- 1. General exceptions: A general prologue, p.150 -- 2. The creation of a high threshold, p.157 -- 3. A territoriallimitation?, p.163 -- C. Artide XX in the era of the wro, p.167 -- 1. Institutional changes and the working of precedents, p.167 -- 2. A new beginning with the Appellate Body, p.172 -- 3. Proportionality, interpretation, and legitimacy, p.180 -- D. Conclusions: Adjudication, precedents, and legitimacy, p.190 -- V. CREATIVE INTERPRETATIONS: NORMATIVE TWISTS p.196 -- A. The bittersweet taste of justice in legal discourse, p.198 -- 1. Narratives of progress and advents of justice, p.200 -- 2. Scepticism and realism, p.207 -- 3. The practice of inrerpretation and communicative action, p.214 -- B. The centrality of law: Dissonances and developments in legal dowine, p.223 -- 1. The appeal and futiliry of soft law, p.225 -- 2. Intertemporal law and subsequent practice: shortening the leash?, p.230 -- 3. Global administrarive law and international public authotiry, p.240 -- C. Evasive foundations: Semantic authority in a normative pluriverse, p.245 -- 1. Principles of democracy and ultimate authority, p.248 -- 2. Architectural renovation and institutional design, p.252 -- 3. Attitudes and interpretarion at critical junctures, p.256 -- VI. EPILOGUE: IN THE END THERE IS ETERNITY p.262.
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Keywords: International law -- Interpretation and construction; International law -- Language; International law -- Interpretation and construction; International law -- Language