MARKET 1 Lecture 14:
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Applies to all types of written treaties. Not concerned with the material content of the instrument itself: the treaty as a concept under international law, treaty: international agreement governed by international law concluded by two or more international subjects with treaty-making capacity. It reflects the will among two or more international subjects to apply international law as a means of regulating their interests: the vlct applies to all types of written treaties. International organizations may also be parties to treaties, but they will be governed by the 1986. Vienna convention on the law of treaties between international organizations or between. 26 vclt: a state party may not invoke its national laws as justification for a failure to perform a treaty- based obligation. In fact a state is obliged to comply with its treaty-based obligation even if doing so requires breaching its national laws (art. 27 vclt: oral agreements are also treaties for the purposes of international law.
