LAWS1023 Lecture 2: LAWS1023 L2
20 Jul 2018
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Reading for next week: pp159-200 c4 of rothwell (1st ed) General: treaties: agreement between two states or more on a certain topic, evident of express consent of states, what treaties assist in doing: Mechanism where precise relationships between individual parties can be adjusted to meet particular requirements. Qatar v bahrain: whether exchanges of letters between heads of each state were treaties binding in international law: yes, binding as treaties. In the current case, letters did not merely give an account of discussions and summarise agreements and disagreements they were a reaffirmation of obligations previously entered into: vienna convention on the law of treaties (vclt), art. For the purposes of the present convention. Treaty" means an international agreement concluded between states in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever its particular designation.
