Benedikt Pirker

About/Bio

Benedikt Pirker is a Senior Lecturer (Maître d’enseignement et de recherche) at the Chair for European Law, International Law and Public Law and the Institute for European Law of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

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The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber’s Reading of “or” in the Myanmar Jurisdiction Ruling: On the Relevance of Linguistics to Interpretation

Linguistics continues to be a blind spot for international lawyers. Despite the self-perception that lawyers work predominantly with language, an in-depth inquiry into the actual science dealing with the phenomenon of language remains, to a large extent, a desideratum. Linguistics can, however, be very helpful in understanding the intended meaning of a word or phrase, as we will…

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