Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals

Daniel Peat is an Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Universiteit Leiden. Before joining Universiteit Leiden, he worked at the International Court of Justice as an Associate Legal Officer for President Abdulqawi A. Yusuf. Daniel was awarded a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Gonville and Caius College and a recipient of the WM Tapp Studentship. He is a graduate of The Graduate Institute, Geneva, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was awarded the Lauterpacht/Higgins Prize for Public International Law. Daniel co-edited Interpretation in International Law (2015) and acts as Rapporteur for the International Law Association Study Group on the Content and Evolution of the Rules of Interpretation.

• Introduction; 1. The limits of the Vienna Convention; 2. Domestic law in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice; 3. The interpretation of schedules of commitments in the WTO; 4. International investment law and the public law analogy; 5. Consensus doctrine in the European Court of Human Rights; 6. Domestic law and system building in the ICTY; Conclusion.

'Dr Peat has offered fresh insights into two under-studied topics - the place of domestic law in treaty interpretation and the comparative jurisprudence of international courts and tribunals. By calling attention to commonalities and distinctions among the approaches of various courts and identifying judicial practices that may not fit neatly into orthodox narratives, the volume promises to be valuable to scholars, practitioners and jurists alike.' Joan Donoghue, Judge of the International Court of Justice, Netherlands