Interpretation of Law in the Global World: From Particularism to a Universal Approach

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Legal Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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3. Introduction Capturing the Change: Universalising Tendencies in Legal Interpretation

   1. Introduction Capturing the Change: Universalising Tendencies in Legal Interpretation

      • Joanna Jemielniak, Przemysław Mikłaszewicz

      Pages 1-27

4. Legal Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Transformations in Law Interpretation: Towards a Universal Approach – The Phenomenon, Causes and Symptoms

      • Ewa Łętowska

      Pages 31-52

   3. Discourse Ethics as a Basis of the Application of Law

      • Bartosz Wojciechowski

      Pages 53-69

   4. Judicial Interpretation of Bilingual and Multilingual Laws: A European and Hong Kong Comparison

      • Deborah Cao

      Pages 71-86

   5. The European Dual Nature: Unity/Fragmentation

      • Anne Wagner

      Pages 87-103

5. European Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. The Universalisation of Legal Interpretation

      • Marek Safjan

      Pages 107-124

   3. The Power of National Courts in Interpreting Domestic and EU Law: The Indeterminacy of Choice

      • Ermal Frasheri

      Pages 125-142

   4. Implementation of European Regulation of the Financial Sector: Consequences for the Consumer Protection

      • Camilla Hørby Jensen, Nina Dietz Legind

      Pages 143-165

   5. Joint Competence of the EC and Its Member States as a Source of Divergent Interpretations of the TRIPS Agreement at Community and National Levels

      • Monika Niedźwiedź

      Pages 167-180

   6. Some Idealism About Realism. Judging Under Certainty and the Standardization of Adjudication in the EC Law

      • Mariusz Jerzy Golecki

      Pages 181-199

6. European Criminal Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Pro-European Interpretation of Criminal Law Vis-à-vis the Constitutional Standards of the European Union Member States

      • Barbara Nita

      Pages 203-229

   3. Linguistic Pluralism and Interpretation of European Law in the Third Pillar, Discussed with Reference to the Example of Article 54 of the Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement

      • Barbara Nita, Andrzej Światłowski

      Pages 231-250

   4. Introducing Hermeneutic Methods in Criminal Law Interpretation in Europe

      • Alicja Ornowska

      Pages 251-275

7. Private Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277

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   2. Fifty Years in Five? The Brazilian Approach to the New York Convention

      • André de Albuquerque Cavalcanti Abbud

      Pages 279-301

Capturing the Change: Universalising Tendencies in Legal Interpretation Joanna Jemielniak and Przemys aw Mik aszewicz International and supranational integration on the European continent, as well as the harmonisation of the rules of international trade and the accompanying dev- opment and global popularity of the resolution of commercial disputes through arbitration, constantly exerts a considerable in uence on modern legal systems. The sources of each of these phenomena are different, and their action is dissimilar. Each can be described as reaching either from the top to the bottom, through the direct involvement of interested States and consequently affecting their internal legal s- tems (international and supranational integration; harmonisation of trade regulations through public international law instruments), or bottom-up, as a result of activity by private parties, leading to the achievement of uniform practices and standards (ar- tration, lex mercatoria). Nonetheless, they both enrich national legal cultures and contribute to transgressing the limits of national (local) particularisms in creating, interpreting and applying the law. The aim of this book is to demonstrate how these processes have in uenced the interpretation of law, how they have shaped the methods and techniques of the interpretation and with what consequences for the outcomes of the interpretative procedures. In assessing the extent of this in uence, due regard must be paid to the fact that the interpretation of law is not, in principle, directly determined by the provisions of law itself.

• Arbitration
• EU Law
• European Law
• European Union (EU)
• International Business Law
• Legal Interpretation
• Legal Theory
• interpretation

• Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark

  Joanna Jemielniak

• Tribunal of the Republic of Poland, Office of the Constitutional, Warszawa, Poland

  Przemyslaw Miklaszewicz

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