Daniel Peat’s excellent study Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals covers important issues in the interpretation of treaties. Its examination of how certain international courts and tribunals have used domestic law and principles or concepts derived from domestic law in reasoning leading to interpretation of treaties provides a useful stimulus to consideration of such materials in treaty…

The legal protection of multilingualism is an important principle and an indispensable guarantee for the functioning of the institutions of the European Union (EU) as well as for their relationships with EU citizens. This is not only evidenced by Article 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which obligates the Union to respect linguistic diversity. Beyond that, legally…