Alexander Orakhelashvili (LLM Leiden, PhD Cantab.) is a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He has previously taught international law in the Universities of London and Cambridge. His research includes all areas of international law. He has previously published Peremptory Norms in International Law (OUP, Oxford Monographs in International Law, 2006), and the wide range of articles in the leading international law journals and yearbooks.

• Introduction


• Part I - The Effectiveness of International Legal Regulation


• 1: Doctrinal Treatment of the Effectiveness of Legal Regulation


• 2: Characteristics and Implications of the Effectiveness of Legal Regulation


• Part II - Threshold of Legal Regulation


• 3: The Essence of the Threshold of Legal Regulation


• 4: Customary Law and Inherent Rules


• Part III - Law and Non-law in the International Legal System


• 5: Fact as Non-Law and the Limits on its Relevance


• 6: Interest as Non-Law


• 7: Values as Non-law


• 8: Quasi-Normative Non-Law


• Part IV - The Regime and Methods of Interpretation in International Law


• 9: Conceptual Aspects of Interpretation


• 10: Treaty Interpretation: Rules and Methods


• 11: Treaty Interpretation: Effectiveness and Presumptions


• 12: Interpretation of Jurisdictional Instruments


• 13: Interpretation of Unilateral Acts and Statements


• 14: Interpretation of Institutional Decisions


• 15: Interpretation of Customary Rules


• 16: The Agencies of Interpretation


• Part V - Treaty Interpretation and Indeterminate Provisions of Non-Law


• 17: The Essence of and Response to the Indeterminacy of Treaty Provisions


• 18: Equity and Equitable Considerations in Treaties


• Conclusion

This monograph examines international legal regulation, analyses how it interacts with non-legal factors, and seeks to understand and confront the alleged inherent ambiguity and indeterminacy.