Book Symposium: Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals
Author Richard Gardiner is Visiting Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College London. His main areas of interest are public international law, air law, intellectual property. Daniel Peat’s excellent study Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals covers important issues in the interpretation of treaties. Its examination of how certain international courts and tribunals have used domestic law and principles or concepts derived from domestic law in reasoning leading to interpretation of treaties provides a useful stimulus to consideration of such materials in treaty interpretation. While the book is about interpretation on the international plane, it will also furnish guidance for courts within national systems. Such courts are increasingly encountering legal issues arising from treaties, as treaties come to provide new rules to be given effect within the law of states parties to them, harmonize laws, and provide rules on jurisdict...