Language and Legal Interpretation in International Law

Edited by:   Anne Lise Kjaer (Associate Professor of Legal Linguistics Associate Professor of Legal Linguistics Centre of Excellence for International Courts Faculty of Law University of Copenhagen), Joanna Lam (Professor of International Economic Law, Professor of International Economic Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen)
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 243mm,  Width: 164mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   735g
ISBN:   9780190855208
ISBN 10:   0190855207
Series:   Oxford Studies in Language and Law
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   13 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Anne Lise Kjær is an Associate Professor of Legal Linguistics (tenured) at the Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Her present research focuses on the role that language plays in the development and interpretation of international law. She has investigated the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She has also analyzed Scandinavian Supreme Courts with a view to identifying how they translate and transplant European Human Rights concepts into the languages and reasoning of their case law. She applies a combination of research methods, including, but not limited to, discourse analysis, translation studies, and corpus linguistics. She is on the steering committee of the International Language and Law Association (ILLA) and Director of the Scandinavian based international research network of Legal Linguistics, RELINE. Joanna Lam is Professor of International Economic Law and Director of Study Hub for International Economic Law and Development (SHIELD) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. She is also affiliated with the Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts) and with Kozminski University, and serves as the Chair of the Nordic-Asian Forum for International Economic Law. Lam graduated from Harvard Law School and University of Warsaw (summa cum laude) and holds doctoral and habilitation degrees in legal studies. A former Fulbright Fellow, she completed visiting appointments at, inter alia, Harvard Law School; University of California, Berkeley; Renmin University; and UNIDROIT. Her recent research focuses on legal interpretation in international arbitration; on transformations of investor-state dispute resolution; and on the role of international economic law in the green transition.