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Teleological interpretation of international investment agreements: From preamble to preamble [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2015
This article tackles the general issue of the general rule on treaty interpretation envisaged in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties as applied in investment treaty arbitration.
Đajić Sanja V.
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‘Obsessed with goals’: Functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of actions in humans [PDF]

open access: yesActa Psychologica, 2007
Humans show a strong and early inclination to interpret observed behaviours of others as goal-directed actions. We identify two main epistemic functions that this 'teleological obsession' serves: on-line prediction and social learning. We show how teleological action interpretations can serve these functions by drawing on two kinds of inference ...
Gergely Csibra
exaly   +3 more sources

A teleological interpretation of Bonhoeffer's concept of “A World Come of Age”

open access: yesDialog, 2023
AbstractThis paper explores Dietrich Bonhoeffer's concept of “the nonreligious interpretation of biblical terms in a world come of age,” best known from his Letters and Papers from Prison (LPP). As a case study of its possibilities, we will survey South African thinkers who have explored the concept in rapidly changing contexts. Our leading question is
Dankers, Paul, Willerton, Christian
exaly   +2 more sources

Searching for purpose: Critical assessment of teleological interpretation of treaties in investment arbitration

open access: yesInternational Review of Law, 2016
This article explores the tendency of investment tribunals to resort to teleological interpretation and to the protection and promotion of foreign investments as a standard goal of investment treaties. It further explores how this tendency relates to the
Sanja Djajić
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A Teleological Interpretation of the Applicability of Rhetoric in the Peripatetic Tradition

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2018
For Aristotle, the classification of the audience is the basis of distinguishing the main genres of rhetoric. Due to the auditor receiving political, judicial or educational content, there is a distinction into deliberative, judicial, and epideictic ...
Maria Joanna Gondek
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Teleological reduction as hermeneutical instrument [PDF]

open access: yesAnali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu, 2015
This paper discusses the teleological reduction, which is one of the most important forms of the objective-teleological interpretation. Then, it points out how this hermeneutic instrument by it's nature and way of application confirms to the fullest ...
Bovan Saša B.
doaj   +1 more source

The Court of Justice of the E.U.: A Contextualist Court

open access: yesUniversity of Bologna Law Review, 2023
The Court of Justice of the European Union (E.U.) is sometimes labelled “a teleological court”. In this paper I will show why it is a misleading label. Then I will propose a more appropriate label for it – “a contextualist court” – and describe what such
Davor Petrić
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Interpretation of Wills - Does Endumeni Case Apply?

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2021
This article argues that the general approach to documentary interpretation articulated in Natal Joint Municipal Pension Fund v Endumeni Municipality 2012 4 SA 593 (SCA) (Endumeni) applies also to the interpretation of wills, subject to adaptation for ...
Fareed Moosa
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For a Few Cigarettes More: The AG Opinion in the JTI Case

open access: yesEuropean Papers, 2020
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2019 4(3), 871-880 | European Forum Insight of 27 January 2020 | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. The AG's Opinion. - II.1. Preliminary observations.
Valentin Vandendaele
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The Semiotic Background of the Ineffective Investigation in the Weird Detective Story [PDF]

open access: yesActa Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica, 2023
The classical detective story is based on a teleological certainty offered by the narrative. In these stories, the detective successfully solves the crime, and the lawful order is restored in an assuring manner, so the closure of the narrative ...
Norbert Gyuris
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