Volume 99 (2016), Edition 3

This essay introduces the theme of the volume: The Grammar(s) of Global Law. Legal grammar is understood as the conceptual and linguistic foundation on which legal decisions rest - law’s meta-structure, its argumentative techniques and its...

This contribution sets out to trace an unacknowledged narrativity of international law. It argues that narratives are cognitive instruments that organize the experienced knowledge in the form of a story. Within these stories, narrators can invent...

The article examines the viability and the desirability of the use of constitutional grammar on the global plane. It asks whether global constitutionalism is a viable and/or desirable concept that should be theoretically (and later practically)...

The relationship between international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL) has occupied legal scholarship extensively over the last decades. It is undisputed today that IHRL also applies in situations of armed conflict,...

The article examines whether the interpretation of resolutions of the UN Security Council follows the universal grammar of public international law with general rules of interpretation or a special grammar. First, interpretation will be presented as...