Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration

By Charalampos Giannakopoulos

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009153854
• ISBN13: 9781009153850
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"