TY  - BOOK
AU  - Venzke,Ingo
TI  - How interpretation makes international law: on semantic change and normative twists. 
SN  - 9780198712978
AV  - KZ1285 .V46 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - International law
KW  - Interpretation and construction
KW  - Language
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; I; i.IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE DEED p.1 --; Probl�ematique, p.2 --; Agenda, p.10 --; Programme, p.14 --; II; THE PRACTICE OF INTERPRETATION: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE p.16 --; A; Lawmaking in communicative practice, p.18 --; 1; On the sources of international law, p.19 -; 2; Sovereignry, sources, and semantic change, p.27 --; 3; From sources to communicative practice, p.29 --; B; Semantic struggles in the practice of legal imerpretation, p.37 --; 1; Practice berweer� ageney and strucrure, p.38 --; 2; On the form and substance of legal interpretation, p.46 --; 3; Power and authority in semantic struggles, p.57 --; C; Actors in the practice of interpretation, p.64 --; 1; Private norm entrepreneurs, p.65 --; 2; The disaggregated state, p.67 --; 3; International institutions: Bureaucracies and judicial bodies, p.69 --; III; UNHCR AND THE MAKING OF REFUGEE LAW p.72 --; A; International bureaucracies as actors in legal discourse, p.76 --; 1; Delegation from principals to agents, p.77 --; 2; The authority of international bureaucracies, p.82 --; B; The expansion of UNHCR's Statute, p.87 --; 1; Expectations and concerns, p.90 --; 2; International protection and humble beginnings, p.95 --; 3; Material assistance, good offices, and displaced persons, p.98 --; 4; Humanitarian aid and voluntary repatriation, p.104 --; C; UNHCR and the meaning of the Convention, p.109 --; 1; UNHCR's role in developing the Convention, p.110 --; 2; Semantic change at work: Shifting elements in the meaning of 'refugee', p.122 --; D; Conclusions: Change and contexts, p.130; 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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