- Code
- LAW 411
- Name
- The Law of Treaties
- Semester
- 0
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 1.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.50
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Description
-
Treaties are the foundation of public and private international law and national foreign affairs law. This course examines: historical development of law of treaties; concept of treaty; treaty as source of international and national law; stages of concluding treaty; reservations; accession to treaties, functions of depositary; publication of treaties; breach of treaty obligations; invalidity, termination, and suspension of treaties; denunciation and other withdrawal from treaties; treaties and jus cogens; treaties and customary rules of international law; treaties and third States; treaties and municipal law; interpretation of treaties; languages and authentic texts of treaties.
- Objectives
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The course aims to offer thorough instruction on the foundations and sources of the law of treaties, the role of treaties as a source of international law, the procedures of treaty-making, the relationship between treaties and customary international law and rules just cogens, and the role of language in treaty-formation
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Vienna convention on the Law of Treaties 1969 - The Convention and customary international law - Bilateral and multilateral treaties
- 2
- What is a treaty? - Definition of ‘treaty’ - Memorandum of Understanding - Exchange of notes - Protocol
- 3
- MOUs - Evidence of intention to conclude (or not conclude) a treaty - The practice of states - How and why MOUs are used rather than treaties - The possible legal consequences of MOUs - MOUs in domestic courts
- 4
- Capacity to conclude treaties - Odd casesFederations (and analogous entities) - Overseas territories
- 5
- Full powers - Credentials General rule - Bilateral treaties - Multilateral treaties - Invalid acts
- 6
- Adoption and authentication - Adoption Bilateral treaties - Treaties adopted at international conferences - Consensus Authentication - Treaties adopted within an international organisation - Final Act
- 7
- Consent to be bound - Participation in a treaty - Signature ‘Open for signature’ - Signature ad referendum - Place of signature - Doubt about signature - The Dayton Agreement - Witnessing Ratification
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- Reservations Interpretative declarations - Political declarations - Disguised reservations - Reservations generally not prohibited
- 10
- Entry into force Express provisions - No provision or agreement on entry into force - Ratification after the treaty has entered into force
- 11
- Treaties and domestic law - Duty to perform treaties - Constitutional provisions - Monism Dualism Interpretation and application of treaties by UK courts - EU law and the United Kingdom Treaties as the law of the land - Hierarchy of norms Interpretation of treaties by US courts
- 12
- Territorial application - Territorial extension clauses 202 - Transfer of an overseas territory - Declaration on signature or ratification UK practice - Application of a treaty to an overseas territory alone - Objections to territorial extensions - Political sub-divisions of metropolitan territory
- 13
- Successive treaties - The treaty prevails over all other treaties, past and future - The treaty is subordinate to an earlier one - The parties shall not enter into later inconsistent treaties - An existing treaty shall not be affected - For parties to the treaty it prevails over earlier treaties - Compatible supplementary treaties are permitted - Comprehensive provisions - The best of both worlds
- 14
- Interpretation Article 31 (General rule of interpretation) - Article 32 (Supplementary means of interpretation) - Subsequent agreements - Subsequent practice - Relevant rules of international law Article 32 (Supplementary means of interpretation) - Interpretation of treaties in more than one language
- 15
- Amendment Automatically and comprehensively binding amendment mechanisms - No effective amendment procedureProposal to amend a treaty as between all the parties - Supplementary treaties - Agreement to modify a multilateral treaty between certain parties only - Amendment before entry into force
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Upon the completion of the course the students should be able to understand the relevance of the law of the treaty.
- 2
- Upon the completion of the course the students should be able to understand the difference between domestic and international law.
- 3
- Upon the completion of the course the students should be able to understand the legal effects of the treaties in the domestic law.
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 40% 40%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 0 0% 0%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 40%
- Final exam percent
- 60%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 4 64
- Off class study hours
- 14 4 56
- Duties
- 0 5 0
- Midterms
- 1 10 10
- Final exam
- 1 20 20
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 150
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 6.00
- ECTS
- 6.00