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Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law: Methods and Reasoning Based on the Swiss Example. By Odile Ammann. Leiden: Brill / Nijhoff, 2019. 383 + xviii pages.

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Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law: Methods and Reasoning Based on the Swiss Example. By Odile Ammann. Leiden: Brill / Nijhoff, 2019. 383 + xviii pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2021

ANNA FACCHINETTI*
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Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Pavia
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© The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 2021

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References

1 Montesquieu, De l’esprit des lois (Paris: Garnier frères, 1868) at 149.

2 Mauro, Cappelletti, The Judicial Review Process in Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) at 5 Google Scholar.

3 Ibid at 29–30. See also François, Rigaux, La loi des juges (Paris: Éditions Odile, Jacob, 1997) at 253–54; Gustavo, Zagrebelsky, Il diritto mite (Torino: Einaudi, 1992) at 149Google Scholar.

4 Odile, Ammann, Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law: Methods and Reasoning Based on the Swiss Example (Leiden: Brill / Nijhoff, 2019) at 17 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 See further Joseph, Raz, Between Authority and Interpretation: On the Theory of Law and Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)Google Scholar.

6 Ammann, supra note 4 at 170.

7 HLA Hart, The Concept of Law, 2nd ed (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) at 214.

8 23 May 1969, 1155 UNTS 331, Can TS 1980 No 37 (entered into force 27 January 1980) [VCLT].

9 Report of the International Law Commission: Seventieth Session, UN Doc A/73/10 (2018) at ch V.

10 Ammann, supra note 4 at 48.

11 Ibid at 51.

12 See e.g. Matthias Herdegen, “Interpretation in International Law” in Anne Peters, ed, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law at para 2, online: <http://opil.ouplaw.com/home/MPIL>; Tullio Treves, “Customary International Law” in Peters, ibid at para 2.

13 Ammann, supra note 4 at 194–95.

14 Quebec (Attorney General) v 9147-0732 Québec inc., 2020 SCC 32 at para 3, citing Stéphane Beaulac, “‘Texture ouverte’, droit international et interprétation de la Charte canadienne” (2013) 61 SCLR (2d) 191 at 192–93.

15 Ammann, supra note 4 at 133.

16 VCLT, supra note 8, art 31(3)(b).

17 26 June 1945, Can TS 1945 No 7 (entered into force 24 October 1945).

18 Ammann, supra note 4 at 323.

19 Ibid at 157–58.

20 Ibid at 62, citing generally Helmut, P Aust & Georg, Nolte, eds, The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts: Uniformity, Diversity, Convergence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)Google Scholar.

21 Ammann, supra note 4 at 318.

22 Ibid at 175.

23 Stéphane, Beaulac, “No More International Treaty Interpretation in Canada’s Statutory Interpretation: A Question of Access to Domestic Travaux Préparatoires ” in Mathieu, Devinat & Stéphane, Beaulac, eds, Interpretatio non cessat: Mélanges en l’honneur de Pierre-André Côté / Essays in Honour of Pierre-André Côté (Cowansville, QB: Yvon Blais, 2011) 303 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.