Classical Canons : Rhetoric, Classicism and Treaty Interpretation Book

Contents: Praefatio. Antiquity: Classical rhetoric and declamation; Stasis and questions of legal interpretation; Treaty making and interpretation in classical antiquity; Roman legal science; Ius interpretandi and constitutio legitima. Intermezzo: Transmission of the classical tradition of legal interpretation; Grotius and his followers on treaty construction; The Anglo- American reception. Modernity: Canons of statutory interpretation today; The development of modern rules of treaty interpretation; A primer on modern American treaty interpretation; Treaty readings by the Rehnquist court; New canons for treaty construction. Coda: The uses and abuses of classicism in law; Index.