TY  - UNPD
A1  - Kleinlein, Thomas
T1  - Matters of Interpretation
T2  - KFG Working Paper Series
N2  - This article analyses, from a methodological and theoretical perspective, how international legal method deals with change. Section 2 sets the stage, develops a legal perspective on change of norms and values in the international legal order and distinguishes between structural change and norm change. This is followed in sections 3 and 4 by an examination of doctrinal categories that provide techniques to process change in international legal practice. International legal method is equipped with several techniques to process—and to conceptualize and evaluate—change: ‘Formal’ norm change is a matter of the doctrine of sources. International law can also change ‘informally’ through the shifting meaning of norm texts. Both formal and informal change is a matter of interpretation. Therefore, section 5 aims at theorizing interpretive change. It examines the relationship between the sources of law and legal interpretation as categories of change and analyses theoretical perceptions of interpretive change.
T3  - KFG Working Paper Series - 24 
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42287
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-422871
SN  - 2509-3770
SN  - 2509-3762
IS  - 24
ER  -