This unique book brings together leading experts from diverse areas of public international law to offer a comprehensive overview of the approaches to evolution

This unique book brings together leading experts from diverse areas of public international law to offer a comprehensive overview of the approaches to evolution

If a treaty from the 1850s regulating 'commerce' or forbidding 'degrading treatment of persons' is to be interpreted 150 years later, does 'commerce' or 'degrad

If an old treaty regulating 'commerce' or forbidding 'degrading treatment of persons' is to be interpreted decades after its conclusion, does 'commerce' or 'deg

The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties makes no express reference to many of the most common canons and interpretative principles derived from intern