Discussion of Eirik Bjorge’s The Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties

This week we’ll be hosting a discussion of Eirik Bjorge’s recent book with OUP, The Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties.

Eirik Bjorge is the Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford. Eirik has, among other things, been pensionnaire étranger at École normale supérieure, visiting researcher at Sciences Po and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and stagiaire at the Conseil d’État and the European Court of Human Rights. He has taught at Oxford and at Sciences Po. He is the author of The Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties (OUP, 2014) and Domestic Application of the ECHR: Courts as Faithful Trustees (OUP, 2015).

Eirik’s book will be discussed by Ulf Linderfalk, James Crawford, Isabelle Van Damme, and Marko Milanovic. Eirik will start off the discussion with an introduction, and wrap it up with a response to the four discussants. We are grateful to all of them for their participation.