Rise and Fall of a Treaty or The Law of Treaties Mr. Gian Maria Farnelli International Law Course University of Bologna 24-26 March 2014 Structure of lectures • Spawning considerations • Pacta sunt servanda • The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (‘VCLT’) • Birth of a treaty • • • • • Negotiation Adoption Signature/Ratification Entry into force Registration/Publication • Life of a treaty • • • • Reservations Interpretation/Application Suspension Validity • Death of a treaty • Termination Spawning considerations • Pacta sunt servanda • The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (‘VCLT’) • • • • • 1935 Harvard Draft Articles on the Law of Treaties 1966 ILC Draft Articles on the Law of Treaties 22 May 1969 27 January 1980 Is it customary law? Birth of a treaty • Negotiation • Conference • Full powers (art. 7 VCLT) • Adoption • Signature/Ratification • Articles 2, 11-14 VCLT • Art. 15 VCLT • Registration/Publication • Art. 102 UN Charter Life of a treaty 1 • Reservations • Customary or conventional law? • Universality vs. Integrity of treaties • Utile per inutile non vitiatus • Interpretation/Application • Text, context and object and purpose (art. 31 VCLT) • Supplementary means (art. 32 VCLT) • Multilanguage treaties (art. 33 VCLT) Life of a treaty 2 • Suspension (to be invoked) • • • • • Agreement of the parties (articles 57-58 VCLT) Incompatible treaty (art. 59 VCLT) Inadimplenti non adimplendum est clause (art. 60 VCLT) Force majeur clause (art. 61 VCLT) Proper rebus sic stantibus clause (art. 62 VCLT) • Validity • Voidability (ex nunc) • • • • Breach of domestic rule (art. 46 VCLT) Error (art. 47 VCLT) Fraud (art. 48 VCLT) Corruption (art. 49 VCLT) • Voidness (ex tunc) • Excess of authority (art. 8 VCLT) • Coercion (articles 51-52 VCLT) • Jus cogens (art. 53 VCLT) Death of a treaty • Termination • Condition • Term • Grounds of suspension • • • • Incompatible treaty (art. 59 VCLT) Inadimplenti non adimplendum est clause (art. 60 VCLT) Force majeur clause (art. 61 VCLT) Proper rebus sic stantibus clause (art. 62 VCLT) • Denunciation/withdrawl
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