Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration

Name: Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009153867
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Author: Charalampos Giannakopoulos
ISBN: 9781009153867

By Charalampos Giannakopoulos

Cambridge University Press July 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781009153867
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: July 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Coherence is highly valued in law. It is especially sought after in investor-state dispute settlement, where charges of incoherence in arbitral awards have long been raised by states and scholars. Yet coherence is a largely underexplored notion in international law. Often, it is treated as a mere ideal to strive towards or simply as a different way to describe the legal consistency of judicial outcomes. This book takes a different approach. It sees coherence as an independent concept having two dimensions: a substantive and a methodological one. Both are critically important for legal reasoning by international courts and tribunals, including by investor-state tribunals, and the book illustrates through several case studies some of the ways this conclusion is borne out in practice. A fuller understanding of coherence in international law has implications for our understanding of the concept of law, the practice of legal reasoning, and judicial professional ethics.

Introduction

1. The content of coherence

2. Coherence and legal reasoning

3. Two models for coherence

4. Coherence and the interpretation of treaties

5. Coherence and analogical thinking

6. Coherence as reflexivity

7. Coherence as moral responsibility

Coda: coherence and investor-state dispute settlement reform

Epilogue

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