Textual interpretation and (international) law reading: The myth of (in)determinacy and the genealogy of meaning

Making Transnational Law Work in the Global Economy: Essays in Honour of Detlev Vagts

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 34-55

  Bianchi, Andrea ^a  

^a GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511675881.006     Document Type: Chapter

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