Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties

Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Olufemi Elias

• Publisher: Eleven International Publishing
• Year: 2005
• eBook ISBN: 9789077596333
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Treaties
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book is a collection of essays dealing with issues of contemporary significance in the law of treaties. It neither purports nor aspires to provide a general overview of all aspects of the law of treaties, and it is by no means intended to be a comprehensive textbook. The discussion of the subjects selected in this book will shed some light on a number of areas of the contemporary law of treaties, and, consequently, on some important features of the international legal system at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The relevance of the rules governing the law of treaties for other central fields of international law continue to be the subject of frequent doctrinal discussion. In addition, some rapidly developing newer areas of public international law, which are regulated for the most part by treaties, have renewed the importance of some older problems, for example, the question of conflicts between treaties regulating the same subject-matter and the matter of treaty interpretation. One other important issue is the relevance of the emergence of new actors and factors, other than states, in the international legal order in general, and in the law of treaties in particular.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Chapter One The Identification and Character of Treaties and Treaty Obligations Between States
• Chapter Two Actors and Factors in the Treaty-Making Process
• Chapter Three Aspects of the Law Relating to Material Breach of Treaty
• Chapter Four The Doctrine of Fundamental Change of Circumstances Revisited
• Chapter Five Optional Clause Declarations and the Law of Treaties
• Chapter Six Methods of Expression of Consent to Be Bound By A Treaty
• Chapter Seven The Law of Treaties and the Relationship Between the Security Council and the International Criminal Court
• Chapter Eight The Kyoto Protocol Compliance Regime and the Law of Treaties
• Chapter Nine Conflicts Between Environmental Treaties
• Chapter Ten The Gabčikovo-Nagymaros Case and the Law of Treaties
• Chapter Eleven The Bakassi Peninsula Case and Article 46 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• Index