LAWS 2601 Lecture Notes - Montevideo Convention, Estrada Doctrine, Agos
7 Jul 2014
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If a country has signed and not ratified a convention, it is not really bound but . Vienna convention on the law of treaties, article 27, says that once a state has signed a treaty that you as a state are making a pledge to ultimately implement that treaty. Unless they are not have not ratified the vienna convention on the law of. Subjects of international law: states (primary subjects of intl law, as well as authors) States are paid when individuals are hurt in another country, not the families of those hurt. States criteria for statehood established in customary international law & montevideo. Article 1: the state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: a permanent population. No requirement of homogeneity: a defined territory. Actual and effective possession of a defined piece of land territory. Sovereignty tightly linked to exclusive control of territory with fixed boundaries.
