Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Dynamics of Law and Language in the Interpretation of International Legal Sources / Anne Lise Kj�r and Joanna Lam -- Legal interpretation as an alternative to disputes over validity of laws / Tomasz Stawecki -- Do Legal Concepts Travel? / Adam Dyrda & Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki -- The Semantics of Openness. Why references to foreign judicial decisions do not infringe the sovereignty of national legal systems / Marcin Matczak -- Who forges the tools? : The methods of interpretation between interpretive discourse and positive norms of law / Julian Udich -- Balancing Interpretation Rules as an Element of Judicial Discretion / Bartosz Wojciechowski -- Explaining the Interpretation of International Treaties and the Role of Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties : a Wittgensteinian Perspective / Jaroslav V�etrovsk�y -- Interpreting Multilingual Laws : Some Costs and Benefits / Lawrence Solan -- Framing Legal Interpretation in Terminology Studies / Martina Baj�ci�c -- Multilingual Interpretation by the CJEU in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice / Lucie Pacho Aljanati -- Translation of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights into Non-official Languages: The Politics and Practice of European Multilingualism / Anne Lise Kj�r -- When and how can certain fundamental values be introduced into the treaty interpretation process under the WTO? / Chang-fa Lo -- Legal interpretation and adjudicatory activism in international commercial arbitration / Joanna Lam -- Is a legal implicature only in the eye of the beholder? : On the interpretation of the CISG convention / Izabela Skocze�n -- A Concept in Transformation : Interpretation of "Fair and Equitable Treatment" in International Investment Law / G�unes �Un�uvar -- Understanding the Interpretative Evolution of the Norm Prohibiting Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment under the European Convention / Ezgi Yildiz -- Crimes against women in the statutes and the judicial interpretation of international tribunals and courts : how a feminist critical standpoint has reconstructed the meaning of certain -- international humanitarian law's concepts / Karolina Ristova-Aasterud.

"The purpose of this book is to cast light on the workings of language in international legal interpretation in the context of contemporary processes of globalisation. We take an explicit interdisciplinary perspective, which includes both legal theories of interpretation and linguistic theories of meaning, and both legal philosophy and the philosophy of language. The book treats the subject as it appears within and across different legal fields - international economic law, human rights law and international criminal law, EU law, and international arbitration. It also includes more general perspectives on international legal interpretation, among them comparative law, multilingualism and legal translation"--