Keynote / Interpretation in International Law

00:00 Opening Remarks by Workshop Organizers Professor Panos Merkouris & Dr Sotirios Lekkas (TRICI-Law)
11:33 Keynote Address by Professor Hélène Ruiz Fabri (MPI Luxembourg) – Interpretation in International Law

Panel 1 / A Normative Approach to Interpretation in International Law: Prospects and Challenges

0:00 Introduction by Chair, Professor Pauline Westerman (Groningen)
2:42 Professor Gleider Hernández (KU Leuven and Open Universiteit) – Indeterminacy, Authority and International Law as a System
35:28 Dr Daniel Peat (Leiden) – Disciplining Rules? The Evaluative Dimension of Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention
1:03:16 Dr Sotirios Lekkas (TRICI-Law) – The Uses of the Works of the International Law Commission in International Adjudication

Panel 2 / The Rule of Treaty Interpretation and its Evolution

0:00 Introduction by Chair, Professor Ramses Wessel (Groningen)
2:41 Professor Kirsten Schmalenbach (Salzburg) – The Impact of Rules and Acts of International Organisations on the Interpretation of Treaties
27:23 Dr Irina Buga (De Brauw) – The Treaty Impact of Subsequent Customary International Law: Pushing the Boundaries of the Rules of Interpretation?
1:09:42 Professor Panos Merkouris (TRICI-Law) – The Principle of Systemic Integration

Panel 3 / Interpretation and Sources of International Law Beyond Treaties

00:00 Introduction by Chair, Professor Photini Pazartzis (Athens)
04:52 Dr Eva Kassoti (Asser Institute) – Interpretation as a Tool for Ascertaining the Creation of Obligations in International Law: A Unified Framework for Interpreting International Juridical Acts
25:08 Dr Odile Ammann (Zurich) – The Interpretation of Customary International Law: Art or Science?
58:14 Dr Efthymios Papastavridis (Oxford; Athens) – The Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions