@article{2023:schmid:vlkerrec,
title = {Völkerrechtskonforme Auslegung aus schweizerischer Sicht: Ein Randphänomen?},
year = {2023},
note = {This article discusses the scope and limits of consistent
interpretation in Switzerland and discusses the extent to which
construing national law in conformity with public international law is
indicative of the ‘friendliness towards international law’ of a
constitution. I argue, first, that consistent interpretation in
Switzerland has certainly served the cause of friendliness towards
international law, but that three conditions must be met before it can
come into play. Second, the article concludes that consistent
interpretation is, nevertheless, of limited use in ‘measuring’ the
international law friendliness of the Swiss legal system because
consistent interpretation does not come into play in numerous
constellations and narrows the view to a modest number of court cases.
In relation to the sum of challenges related to the implementation of
international law domestically, consistent interpretation is a
marginal phenomenon.},
journal = {Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law},
pages = {783--804},
author = {Schmid, Evelyne},
volume = {83},
number = {4}
}