Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-15385-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Coherence is highly valued in law. It is especially sought after in investor-state dispute settlement, where charges of incoherence in arbitral awards have long been raised by states and scholars. Yet coherence is a largely underexplored notion in international law. Often, it is treated as a mere ideal to strive towards or simply as a different way to describe the legal consistency of judicial outcomes. This book takes a different approach. It sees coherence as an independent concept having two dimensions: a substantive and a methodological one. Both are critically important for legal reasoning by international courts and tribunals, including by investor-state tribunals, and the book illustrates through several case studies some of the ways this conclusion is borne out in practice. A fuller understanding of coherence in international law has implications for our understanding of the concept of law, the practice of legal reasoning, and judicial professional ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giannakopoulos, Charalampos

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Zivilprozessrecht Streitschlichtung, Mediation
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. The content of coherence; 2. Coherence and legal reasoning; 3. Two models for coherence; 4. Coherence and the interpretation of treaties; 5. Coherence and analogical thinking; 6. Coherence as reflexivity; 7. Coherence as moral responsibility; Coda: coherence and investor-state dispute settlement reform; Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Giannakopoulos, Charalampos
Charalampos Giannakopoulos is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. He has previously been a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School and a legal consultant at UNCTAD (Investment Agreements Section).