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14 - The Law of Treaties

from Part III - The Impact of the ICJ’s Jurisprudence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2023

Carlos Espósito
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Kate Parlett
Affiliation:
Twenty Essex, London
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Summary

This chapter examines the law of treaties in the jurisprudence of the ICJ. The author highlights the Court’s position on key selected issues of interpretation: specifically the language of the treaty; time and treaty interpretation; and the role of policy. The chapter also considers issues of systemic integration, hierarchy and concurrence of rules.

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Print publication year: 2023

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Bjorge, E., The Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties (Oxford University Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Buga, Irina, Modification of Treaties by Subsequent Practice, Oxford University Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Djeffal, Ch, Static and Evolutive Treaty Interpretation: A Functional Reconstructio (Cambridge University Press, 2016).Google Scholar
Fa Lo, Chang, Treaty Interpretation under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: A New Round of Codification (Springer, 2018).Google Scholar
Gardiner, Richard, Treaty Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 2015).Google Scholar
Gowlland-Debbas, Vera, ‘The Role of the ICJ in the Development of the Contemporary Law of Treaties’, in Tams, Christian J and Sloan, James (eds.), The Development of International Law by the ICJ (Oxford University Press, 2013) 29.Google Scholar
Hébié, Mamadou, Souveraineté territoriale par traité. Une étude des accords entre puissances coloniales et entités politiques locales (Presses Universitaires de France, 2015).Google Scholar
Report of the Study Work of the ILC, finalised by Koskenniemi, Martti, Fragmentation of International Law: Difficulties arising from the diversification and expansion of International Law, A/CV.4/L.682, 13 April 2006.Google Scholar
Kolb, Robert, ‘L’Article 103 de la Charte des Nations Unies’, Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit International de la Haye, v. 367, 2013, pp. 9252 (edited also in the series of the Pocketbooks of the Academy, 2014).Google Scholar
Nolte, Georg, ‘Treaties and their Practice: Symptoms on Their Rise and Decline’, Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit International de La Haye, v. 392, 2017, pp. 205397 (edited also in the series of the Pocketbooks of the Academy, 2018).Google Scholar
Remiro Brotóns, Antonio, ‘La noción de regímenes internacionales en el Derecho Internacional Público’, in Rodrigo Hernández, Ángel J. (eds.), Unidad y Pluralismo en el Derecho Internacional Público y en la Comunidad Internacional, Coloquio en Homenaje a Oriol Casanovas (Tecnos, 2011) 167.Google Scholar
Wyatt, J., Intertemporal Linguistics in International Law: Beyond Contemporaneous and Evolutionary Treaty Interpretation, Hart Publishing, 2021.Google Scholar

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