Justification or Discovery? A New Way to a Fuller Understanding of the Law on Treaty Interpretation
For many years, Articles 31-33 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) have been considered a reFlection of the international law that governs the interpretation of treaties. This essay identifies two different ways of conceiving of this law: it can be regarded either as a tool for the justification of meaning or a tool for its discovery. The essay clarifies the relationship th
