Session Four: Contractual Claims, Courts and Bilateral Investment Treaties
Article from: TDM 4 (2005), in BIICL Investment Treaty Forum Conference
Introduction
In connection with the introduction we were given this morning by Martin Hunter, in which Martin said that one of the issues that we will be discussing all day is interpretation, and the difference between the way in which international lawyers interpret treaties and the way in which commercial lawyers interpret contracts. I think he is completely right. All international lawyers, public international lawyers, are taught immediately about the Vienna Convention on treaties. Article 31, which codifies the customary international law of how treaties are to be interpreted by those ...