Overview
The 1969 and 1986 Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties are essential components of the contemporary international legal order. They aim at regulating what has become the main source of public international law and a crucial tool in inter-state relations. The Vienna Conventions codify to a significant extent the customary rules that pre-existed in the field, but also put forward innovative concepts, such as jus cogens. In spite of their importance, these two instruments had so far not been the object of a detailed commentary. These volumes fill that gap, by providing both international and national lawyers with an in-depth analysis of each provision of both Conventions. The structure of each commentary is essentially uniform, with the first part dedicated to the exposition of that provision's object and purpose and to the assessment of its customary status. The second part of each commentary deals with the main issues of interpretation raised by the provision in question. Extensive reference is made to the travaux preparatoires of both Conventions, including the work of the UN International Law Commission and the proceedings of the 1969 and 1986 diplomatic conferences, and to practice both prior to and following the adoption of the Conventions. The 90 + authors who contributed to the book come from twenty different countries and include some of the most respected experts in international law.
Full Product Details
Author: Olivier Corten ,
Pierre Klein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 18.20cm
, Height: 11.00cm
, Length: 25.00cm
Weight: 3.594kg
ISBN: 9780199546640
ISBN 10: 0199546649
Pages: 2176
Publication Date: 07 April 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This must be the definitive reference work for these two conventions...Congratulations to Professors Corten and Klein and to each of the contributing authors. International Law Prof Blog
This must be the definitive reference work for these two conventions...Congratulations to Professors Corten and Klein and to each of the contributing authors. International Law Prof Blog This is a magisterial work of sweeping proportions on a subject which, despite its somewhat esoteric nature, continues to have great practical importance. Commonwealth Lawyers' Association
Author Information
Olivier Corten teaches public international law at the Universite libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), and director of the Revue belge de droit international/Belgian Review of International Law. He is the author or co-author of four books (Droit d'ingerence ou obligation de reaction ? - Les possibilites d'action visant a assurer le respect des droits de la personne face au principe de non-intervention (Bruylant, Brussels, 1992, et 2nd ed., 1996), L'utilisation du raisonnable par le juge international (Bruylant, Brussels, 1997), Ex-Yougoslavie : droit international, politique et ideologie (Bruylant, Brussels, 1998) and Le droit contre la guerre - L'interdiction du recours a la force en droit international contemporain, Pedone, Paris, 2008) and of more than sixty articles.
