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Treaty interpretation (Record no. 29864)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780199597048 |
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| Classification number | 341.3 GAR |
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| Personal name | Gardiner Richard |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Treaty interpretation |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2008 |
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| Extent | 409p |
| Dimensions | lxxiii |
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| Price amount | Rs. 2,133 |
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| Formatted contents note | Contents<br/>Foreword by Sir Michael Wood;<br/>Preface to Paperback Edition;<br/>Preface to First Edition;<br/>Acknowledgments;<br/>Abbreviations;<br/>Note on Citations .;<br/>Table of Cases;<br/>Table of Treaties and Legislation;<br/>PART 1. OVERVIEW, HISTORY, MATERIALS, AND DRAMA TIS PERSONAE<br/>The Vienna Rules;<br/>1. -A Single Set of Rules of Interpretation;<br/>1. Introduction;<br/>1.1 Guide to analytical approach;<br/>2. Applicability of the Vienna Rules Generally;<br/>2.1 History of recognition by the Ie] of the Vienna rules;<br/>2.2 Express endorsement of the Vienna rules by the IC];<br/>2.3 Endorsement of the Vienna rules by other international courts and tribunals;<br/>2.4 Endorsement of the Vienna rules by national courts;<br/>3. Definitions and Key Concepts;<br/>3.1 Treaty;<br/>3.2 Party, signatory, etc;<br/>3.3 Treaty relations;<br/>3.4 Preparatory work;<br/>3.5 Intertemporallaw;<br/>3.6 'Interpretation' and 'application';<br/>4. The Process ofInterpretation and the Nature of the Rules;<br/>4.1 The process of interpretation and the principle of autonomous interpretation;<br/>4.2 A general 'rule' and 'rules' of interpretation;<br/>4.3 Are the Vienna rules 'rules'?;<br/>5. Four Examples;<br/>5.1 Interpretation by the European Court of Human Rights-a typical approach ;<br/>5.2 An interpretation by an arbitral tribunal of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)-interpretation and application;<br/>5.3 Interpretation within a national legal system-contrasting application of Vienna rules and domestic precedent;<br/>5.4 Interpretation within a national legal system-increasing awareness of the Vienna rules in courts in the UK;<br/>2. Development of Rules of Interpretation;<br/>1. Introduction;<br/>2. Treaty Interpretation in the Greco-Roman Era;<br/>3. Grotius, Pufendorf, Vattel, and Canons of Interpretation;<br/>4. The Harvard Draft Convention on the Law of Treaties;<br/>5. The Permanent Court of International Justice;<br/>6. Restrictive Interpretation and Effectiveness;<br/>7. Institut de Droit International;<br/>8. The Practice of the International Court of Justice Before the Vienna Convention;<br/>9. The New Haven School and World Public Order;<br/>10. The Work of the International Law Commission and the Vienna Conference;<br/>3. Interpretative Material Generated in Making Treaties;<br/>1. Introduction;<br/>2. Making Treaties;<br/>2.1 Who initiates and negotiates treaties?;<br/>2.2 Negotiating and drawing up a treaty;<br/>2.2.1 Negotiation and full powers;<br/>2.3 Adoption and authentication of a treaty text;<br/>2.4 Concluded and other instruments;<br/>2.4.1 Final acts and protocols.;<br/>2.4.2 Distinguishing treaties from other instruments;<br/>3. Statements or Declarations by States Affecting Interpretation of Treaties;<br/>3.1 Reservations;<br/>3.2 Interpretative declarations;<br/>3.3 Differentiating between reservations and interpretative declarations;<br/>3.4 Wrinkles in the distinction;<br/>3.5 Confusing terminology;<br/>3.6 Significance of how the maker characterizes a statement or declaration;<br/>3.7 'Conditional declarations';<br/>3.8 Other declarations;<br/>3.9 Statements in response to declarations;<br/>3.10 Effects of responses to interpretative declarations;<br/>3.11 Effects of interpretative declarations;<br/>3.12 Decisions of courts and tribunals on interpretative declarations ;<br/>3.13 Conclusion on interpretative declarations;<br/>4. Preparatory Materials;<br/>4.1 How far does preparatory work trace history? ;<br/>4.1.1 What illuminates a common understanding? <br/>4.1.2 Tracing a historical line;<br/>4.1.3 Looking at the main source;<br/>4.1.4 Using all material available to negotiators ;<br/>4.2 Whether preparatory work can be differentially admissible;<br/>4.3 Documents associated with treaty negotiations 10:<br/>4.4 Admissibility of documents from a unilateral source ;<br/>4. Who Uses the Vienna Convention to Interpret Treaties? ;<br/>1. Introduction;<br/>2. International Organizations;<br/>2.1 General interpretative competence in international organizations;<br/>2.2 The two Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties ;<br/>2.3 The United Nations and other organizations ;<br/>2.4 The European Community and European Union;<br/>3. International Courts and Tribunals;<br/>3.1 International Court of Justice;<br/>3.2 Arbitration;<br/>3.3 The World ~r~de Organization Dispute Settlement Understanding ;<br/>3.4 The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ;<br/>3.5 The European Court of Human Rights;<br/>3.6 The European Court of Justice;<br/>3.6.1 The treaties founding the Community ;<br/>3.6.2 Treaties to which the Community is a party with non-member states ;<br/>3.6.3 Community instruments giving effect to treaties with non-members;<br/>3.7 Other international courts and tribunals;<br/>4. National Legal Systems ;<br/>4.1 Implementation of treaties;<br/>4.2 Judicial interpretation within national legal systems ;<br/>4.2.1 Parties to the Vienna Convention generally ;<br/>4.2.2 The common law tradition ;<br/>4.2.3 States which are not parties to the Vienna Convention ;<br/>PART II. INTERPRETATION APPLYING THE VIENNA CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF TREATIES;<br/>A. The General Rule;<br/>5. The General Rule: (1) The Treaty, its Terms, and their Ordinary Meaning ;<br/>1. A 'Treaty';<br/>1.1 The 'treaty' and its 'terms';<br/>1.2 The sound of silence-absent and implied terms;<br/>2. 'Good Faith';<br/>2.1 History and preparatory work relating to 'good faith';<br/>2.2 Ordinary meaning of 'good faith';<br/>2.3 'Good faith' in context and in the light of the Convention's object and purpose;<br/>2.4 Issues and practice;<br/>2.4.1 'Good faith' generally;<br/>2.4.2 'Good faith' meaning reasonableness;<br/>2.4.3 'Good faith' limiting interpretation of a power;<br/>2.4.4 'Good faith' requiring balancing of treaty elements;<br/>2.4.5 'Good faith' and the principle of effectiveness<br/> (ur res magis vale at quam pereat);<br/>3.Ordinary Meaning';<br/>3.1 History and preparatory work;<br/>3.2 Ordinary meaning of 'ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty';<br/>3.3 Issues and practice;<br/>3.3.1 Role of ordinary meaning;<br/>3.3.2 Dictionaries and other sources of definitions;<br/>3.3.3 Literal meanings of single terms;<br/>3.3.4 No ordinary meaning or no single one?<br/>3.3.5 Generic terms;<br/>3.3.6 'Ordinary'to whom?;<br/>3.3. 7 Treaty language and terms;<br/>3.3.8 Terms and concepts;<br/>4.'Context';<br/>4.1 Background and context;<br/>4.2 Issues and practice;<br/>4.2.1 Immediate context-grammar and syntax ;<br/>4.2.2 Title, headings, and chapeaux ;<br/>4.2.3 Context showing structure or scheme;<br/>4.2.4 Related and contrasting provisions;<br/>4.2.5 Preamble ;<br/> 4.2.6 Punctuation and syntax;<br/>5. Object and Purpose';<br/>5.1 History and preparatory work relating to 'object and purpose';<br/>5.2 Ordinary Meaning of 'object and purpose' in context;<br/>5.3 Issues and practice;<br/>5.3.1 Singular object and purpose;<br/>5.3.2 Finding object and purpose from preamble and substantive provisions;<br/>5.3.3 Can the object and purpose be used to counter clear substantive provisions?<br/>5.3.4 Object and purpose identifying general scope of treaty;<br/>5.3.5 Object and purpose in a particular provision;<br/>5.3.6 Principle of effectiveness (general);<br/>6. Conclusions;<br/>6. The General Rule: (2) Agreements as Context, Subsequent Agreements, and Subsequent Practice;<br/>1. Introduction;<br/>1.1 The linking notion of agreement;<br/>1.2 Substantial identity of effect of subsequent agreements on interpretation as of those at time of conclusion;<br/>1.3 Interpretative agreement in subsequent practice;<br/>2. Agreements and Instruments Made in Connection with Conclusion of a Treaty;<br/>2.1 'Conclusion' of a treaty;<br/>2.2 Interpretative role of agreements connected with conclusion of a treaty;<br/>2.3 Interpretative role of instruments made by one or more parties;<br/>2.3.1 Instruments covered by article 31(2)(b) of the Vienna Convention;<br/>2.3.2 Role of unilateral instruments covered by article 31 (2)(b);<br/>3. Subsequent Agreements;<br/>3.1 Fact of agreement, not form, is the key factor;<br/>3.1.1 History and analysis;<br/>3.1.2 IC] looks for fact of agreement, not form;<br/>3.2 Less formal or informal agreement;<br/>3.3 Effect of amending agreements;<br/>4. Subsequent Practice;<br/>4.1 Elements of subsequent practice;<br/>4.1.1 History and development of the provision;<br/>4.1.2 Meaning of 'subsequent practice';<br/>4.1.3 Practice to be concordant, common, and consistent;<br/>4.1.4 Practice may Consist of executive, legislative, and judicial acts;<br/>4.1.5 'Subsequent practice' and 'subsequent conduct' distinguished;<br/>4.1.6 Practice 'in the application of the treaty';<br/>4.2 Deduction from absence of subsequent practice;<br/>4.3 Parties participating in the practice;<br/>4.3.1 Practice must be attributable to parties;<br/>4.3.2 Agreement, not practice, of all parties is required;<br/>4.3.3 Practice of some parties only does not interpret a treaty;<br/>'inter se' unless so agreed;<br/>4.3.4 Practice of some parties in absence of that of others;<br/>4.4 'Establishing' agreement;<br/>4.5 Subsequent practice linked with informal agreement, understandings, or other instruments;<br/>4.6 Subsequent practice and 'evolutive' interpretation distinguished;<br/>4.7 Subsequent practice and amendment differentiated;<br/>4.8 Subsequent practice in international organizations;<br/>4.8.1 Whose practice in the organization?;<br/>4.8.2 Practice in relation to treaty establishing an organization;<br/>4.8.3 Practice in relation to treaty provisions other than constitutional ones;<br/>7. The General Rule: (3) Relevant Rules of International Law and Special Meanings;<br/>1. Introduction;<br/>1.1 The intertemporal rule in general international law;<br/>1.2 Time factors in treaty interpretation;<br/>2. History and Preparatory Work of Article 31(3)(c);<br/>3. Ordinary Meaning of Article 31 (3) (c) in Context, etc;<br/>3.1 There shall be taken into account, together with the context ;<br/>3.2 Relevant rules of international law;<br/>3.2.1 Relevance;<br/>3.2.2 Rules of international law;<br/>3.3 Which are 'the parties'?;<br/>4. Issues and Practice;<br/>4.1 Terms;<br/>4.1.1 Extent of relevant 'international law';<br/>4.1.2 'Rules'<br/>4.1.3 Applicable in the relations between which 'parties?;<br/>4.2 Intertemporal and temporal issues;<br/>4.3 Clarifying meaning by reference to international law;<br/>4.4 Reference to other treaties;<br/>4.4.1 Reference to international law stated in common form treaties;<br/>4.4.2 Reference to the same word as used in other treaties;<br/>4.4.3 Reference to terms or phrases used in treaties on the same subject;<br/>4.5 Filling gaps by reference to general international law;<br/>4.6 Parallel and conflicting obligations;<br/>4.7 Taking account of international law developments;<br/>5. Special Meanings;<br/>5.1 Introduction;<br/>5.2 History and preparatory work;<br/>5.3 Issues and practice;<br/>5.3.1 Special meaning and ordinary meaning distinguished;<br/>5.3.2 Burden of establishing a special meaning;<br/>5.3.3 Evidence required establishing a special meaning;<br/>5.3.4 Special meanings and special regimes;<br/>B. Supplementary Means of Interpretation;<br/>8. Supplementary Means of Interpretation;<br/>1. Introduction<br/>2. History and Preparatory Work;<br/>2.1 Separating supplementary means from the general rule ;<br/>2.2 Ready reference to preparatory work distinguished from basing interpretations on it alone;<br/>2.3 Distinction between use of supplementary means 'to confirm' and 'to determine' the meaning ;<br/>3. Meaning of 'Recourse' and 'Supplementary' ;<br/>3.1 'Recourse';<br/>3.2 'Supplementary';<br/>3.3 Further supplementary means;<br/>4. Issues and Practice;<br/>4.1 Systematic use of gateways, unsystematic use, and by-passing them ;<br/>4.1.1 Explicit reference to the qualifying gateway ;<br/>4.1.2 Reaching the preparatory work informally;<br/>4.1.3 Incidental use of supplementary means ;<br/>4.1.4 Admitting preparatory work introduced by parties;<br/>4.2 Confirming meaning ;<br/>4.2.1 Role of 'confirming 'when not 'determining' ;<br/>4.2.2 Confirming a clear meaning ;<br/>4.2.3 Using supplementary means to confirm 'intention' ;<br/>4.2.4 Using supplementary means to 'reinforce' an interpretation;<br/>4.2.5 Using preparatory work as general support;<br/>4.2.6 Reciting and using preparatory work contrasted;<br/>4.3 Determining meaning;<br/>4.3.1 Qualifying conditions: 'ambiguous or obscure' or 'manifestly 4bsurd or unreasonable';<br/>4.3.2 Ambiguous by reference to availability of another word having one of the claimed meanings;<br/>4.4 Modalities of use of supplementary means;<br/>4.4.1 Using and construing preparatory work;<br/>4.4.2 Reading preparatory work to show agreement to exclude;<br/>4.4.3 Deduction from absence from preparatory work;<br/>4.4.4 Change of word or words during negotiation of treaty;<br/>. 4.4.5 Exclusion of preparatory work from consideration;<br/>4.4.6 May preparatory work be deployed as context?<br/>4.4.7 Using preparatory work to identify or confirm object and purpose;<br/>4.4.8 Effect of interpretation recorded in preparatory work;<br/>4.4.9 Reading preparatory work in combination with other supplementary means;<br/>4.5 Circumstances of conclusion and other supplementary means;<br/>4.5.1 Meaning of 'circumstances of conclusion';<br/>4.5.2 Comparison with provisions in other treaties or associated material as a circumstance of conclusion;<br/>4.5.3 Commentaries, explanatory reports, academic writing, etc;<br/>4.5.4 Other supplementary means;<br/>C. Languages;<br/>9. Languages;<br/>1. Introduction;<br/>2. History and Preparatory Work;<br/>3. Ordinary Meaning of Terms in Article 33;<br/>4. Issues and Practice;<br/>4.1 Interpretation by reference first to only one of several languages;<br/>4.2 Use of 'versions', 'official' and other texts;<br/>4.3 Presumption of the same meaning in all authentic texts;<br/>4.4 How many languages must be considered if there is a need to reconcile texts?<br/>4.5 Is the 'original' language of a treaty particularly significant for interpretation?<br/>4.6 Translation of terms and legal concepts in different languages;<br/>4.7 Reconciliation where one or more texts are clear but another is ambiguous;<br/>4.8 Different punctuation in different languages;<br/>4.9 Reconciliation of language differences by reference to object and purpose;<br/>4.1 0 Using preparatory work in reconciling differences between languages;<br/>Bibliography;<br/>Supplementary Bibliography;<br/>Index<br/><br/> |
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