Title: The International Court of Justice and the law of treaties
Abstract: The International Court of Justice has made numerous pronouncements on questions related to the law of treaties, and it is not possible to give an account of them within the confines of this chapter. Therefore it seems necessary to look at some of the more important dicta on rules and principles of the law of treaties from the perspective of a particular point of view. The point of view chosen here can succinctly be called: formality and flexibility (‘and’, not ‘versus'). The question to be asked is what weight the Court in its dealing with matters of the law of treaties has attached to requirements of a formal nature, and in what cases it has given full legal effect to acts and did so irrespective of possibly applicable formal requirements. Clearly, the growing diversity among the participants in the international community that make treaties may call for a measure of suppleness; on the other hand, that same development may no less lead to an urgent and fully justified demand that the security of the law be safeguarded.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-02-29
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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