Human rights and interpretation: Limits and demands of harmonizing interpretation of international law

Abstract

The issue of interpretation in public international law (PIL) has in recent years drawn considerable scholarly attention. A particular focus has been to develop interpretative methods to ameliorate the fragmentation of public international law. Therefore, as human rights law and other specialized branches are mostly considered to belong to one overarching system of public international law, interpretation of human rights might be affected by those other branches.