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On the Status of United States Treaty Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Salo Engel
Salo Engel*
Affiliation:
The University of Tennessee
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , July 1971 , pp. 593 - 597
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1971

References

1 53 A.J.I.L. 889-892 (1959).

2 C. Bevans (ed.), Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776-1949, Vol. I, p. iii (Dept. of State Pub. 8407, Washington, 1968).

3 Multilateral Treaties: Vol. 1: 1776-1917; Vol. 2: 1918-1930; Vol. 3: 1931-1945; Vol. 4: 1946-1949; Vol. 5: Bilateral: Afghanistan-Burma; Vol. 6: Canada-Czechoslovakia (Dept. of State Pub. 8407, 8441, 8484, 8521, 8543, and 8549, Washington, 1968- 1971). For an evaluation of this publication, see my book review in the March, 1971, issue of the American Political Science Review, Vol. 65, pp. 234-236.

4 187 (42%) of the 449 multilateral treaties published in the multilateral part of the Bevans edition referred to in the preceding footnote, were no longer in force at the time of their publication, while 262 (58%) treaties were still in force then.

5 91st Cong., 2nd Sess., S. 3308 and H.R. 15744. The above bills are identical to the bills introduced by the late Senator Estes Kefauver (D. Term.) in the 86th and 87th Congresses; see S. 3002 and S. 625, respectively.

6 See Queen's University Treaty Project, Cumulative Progress Report to the Canadian International Development Agency for the Period ending March 15, 1970, Working Paper No. 8, pp. 1, 2, 9, 14. See also note by Professor Lawford in 64 A.J.I.L. 925 (1970).

7 In 1950 this writer proposed the creation of an International Legislation Register which would contain up-to-date information on the status of multipartite treaties of general interest; see Engel, “On the Status of International Legislation,” 44 A.J.I.L. 737-739, at 739 (1950).