Matters of Interpretation
- 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.
Author details: | Thomas KleinleinORCiDGND |
---|---|
URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-422871 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-42287 |
ISSN: | 2509-3770 |
ISSN: | 2509-3762 |
Title of parent work (English): | KFG Working Paper Series |
Subtitle (English): | How to Conceptualize and Evaluate Change of Norms and Values in the International Legal Order |
Publication series (Volume number): | KFG Working Paper Series (24) |
Publication type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/12/06 |
Publication year: | 2018 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2019/01/14 |
Issue: | 24 |
Number of pages: | 22 |
Source: | First publication of the paper: DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3292051 |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | PR 2180 |
Organizational units: | Extern / Berlin Potsdam Research Group "The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?" |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
Peer review: | Nicht referiert |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |