The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) contemplates the interpretation of treaties topic in its articles 31, 32 and 33, portraying the frame to be followed by one who is engaged in this difficult endeavor. Tax treaties are, fore and foremost, treaties. Therefore, the VCLT is the...

In the last year John B. Bellinger III, Chief Legal Adviser to the United States Department of State, has been engaging in a dialogue with politicians and legal scholars in European countries. These speeches and public appearances, like the remarks delivered at the London School of Economics in...

For the United States the ‘international law of global security' is, in a unique sense, synonymous with the entire project of constructing global legal order. Uniquely preponderant power enjoyed since the end of the Second World War has allowed US preferences to manifest not merely in specific...

In this paper I analyze the profound change in America's attitude toward international law and in its domestic approach to civil liberties since September 11th. The trials of 'unlawful enemy combatants' by military commissions are analyzed against the background of the relevant precedent (the...

This paper explores the role of international law in Canada-US relations. It concludes that, while international legal considerations are only one among many types of factors that influence Canadian or US government policies and decisions, their relations must necessarily be carried out in the...

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, on July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) in Luxembourg handed down a long-awaited judgement on international data transfers in the Schrems II case. The Court found U.S. law does not provide the “essentially equivalent”...