LAWS259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pacta Sunt Servanda, Multilateral Treaty, Common Purpose
14 Jul 2020
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Treaties form much of the substance of international law. This topic also considers the issue of reservations: mechanisms whereby states seek to modify or avoid certain effects of treaties. Brexit epitomises the interplay of domestic and international pressures when they come to play in regard to treaties. Icj provision is to identify the law of treaties. This lecture: what is a treaty, multilateral treaties the common elements, reservations, the treaty-making process, case study: the landmines convention. International conventions as a source of international law. Art 38 was intended to be broadly construed. 1969): the proliferation of treaties and the fragmentation of international law these treaties are being created but they were not necessarily drafted with the other existence of treaties in mind which therefore can cause conflict. One of the most fundamental primary sources used for international law read the vienna. The definition of the treaty that it defines can only apply to treaties that this convention applies to.
