How Interpretation Makes International Law On Semantic Change and Normative Twists
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Biografisk notat
Ingo Venzke is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam. He completed his doctorate in law at the University of Frankfurt while working at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg where he co-directed a research project on the exercise of public authority by international courts. Ingo was a Hauser Research Scholar at New York University and a Visiting Scholar at the Cegla Center for the Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, Tel Aviv University. He received his LL.M. from the University of London and his B.A. in International Relations from the University of Dresden.It is an impressive and thought-provoking book for scholars and practitioners alike, as it addresses key issues of interpretation in a way that, until now, has remained more or less unexplored ... Readers of Venzke's book will find it the work of a talented writer and lawyer - a truly enjoyable read, and this being backed by solid research and well-structured arguments, the whole is a brilliantly executed piece of work. Last not least, Venzke also succeeds in building a bridge between legal theory and what is sometimes too pedestrian - the practitioner's perspective; both kinds of reader can benefit from reading this book.
Cristina Hoss, Heidelberg Journal of International Law
Venzke's philosophically and dogmatically thoughtful work provides a sophisticated translation of critical linguistic arguments into concrete conclusions for the law.
Chris Thomale, Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
Who does not read it [the book] will spend a lot of time with unnecessary problems.
Ralph Christensen, Juristenzeitung
Ingo Venzke's insightful work on the changing of international norms by way of interpretation comes at an opportune moment ... Its main achievement lies in its critical approach to exposing where authority and power really lie.
Irina Buga, British Yearbook of International Law
well worth reading ... a welcome contribution to international law
Jan Klabbers, European Journal of International Law
Ingo Venzke's book How Interpretation Makes International Law: On Semantic Change and Normative Twists tells a number of tortoise and hare tales with respect to the creation of international law. In these tales the hare is represented by a number of different concepts and actors: formalism, states, sovereignty and sources-centred theoretical accounts of international law and the classic understanding of pacta sunt servanda as the ultimate maxim of how international law comes into existence ... the tortoises in Venzke's thesis are portrayed by the theory of communicative action, jurisgenerative practice and the interpretive acts of international administrations and other participants in international legal relations. Venzke's book is a significant step in providing a concrete theoretical framework for the analysis of how tortoises run. They run in many ways, but a very significant one is interpretation.
Maria Panezi, Transnational Legal Theory
Readers of Venzke's book will find it the work of a talented writer and lawyer-a truly enjoyable read, and this being backed by solid research and well-structured arguments, the whole is a brilliantly executed piece of work.
Christina Hoss, Heidelberg Journal for International Law