Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law

About the Author Georges Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and former Chairman of the Appellate Body, World Trade Organization.Kenneth Keith Professor Emeritus at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he taught for more than 20 years, and a member of the Institut de Droit International.Gabrielle Marceau, Ph.D., is Senior Counsellor in the Legal Affairs Division of the WTO Secretariat. She joined the GATT Secretariat in September 1994. Her main function is to advise panellists in WTO disputes, the Director-General's Office, the Secretariat and WTO Members on WTO-related matters. From September 2005 to January 2010, Mrs Marceau was legal advisor in the Cabinet of former WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy and from September 2016 to January 2017, she was acting director Officer in charge for LAD. Ms Marceau has advised panelists in more than 20 WTO panels proceedings involving several disputes.Gabrielle Marceau is also Associate Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva; she has been Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the Sorbonne in Paris, Monash University in Melbourne, the World Trade Institute in Bern, and others. Professor Marceau is also involved with associations and groups promoting international law. Professor Marceau has published extensively in WTO law and international economic law. A selection of her publications can be found at http://www.unige.ch/droit/collaborateur/marceau-gabrielle/publications.htmlBefore joining the GATT Secretariat, Gabrielle Marceau, member of the Quebec/Canada Bar worked in private practice in Quebec, mainly in labour, insurance law and civil law.Clément Marquet is Research and Teaching Assistant at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva. Product Description This unique book brings together leading experts from diverse areas of public international law to offer a comprehensive overview of the approaches to evolutionary interpretation in different international legal regimes. It begins by asking what interpretation is, offering the views of expert authors on the question, its components and definitions. It then comments on situations that have called for evolutionary interpretation in different international legal regimes, including general international law, environmental law, human rights law, EU law, investment law, international trade law, and how domestic courts have, on occasions, interpreted treaties and other international legal instruments in an evolutionary manner. This timely, authoritative compendium offers an in-depth understanding of the processes at work in evolutionary interpretation as well as a prime selection of the current trends and future challenges.