Legal normativity through tacit agreements: Putting Peru v Chile into a broader perspective / Zoom In
The International Court of Justice and tacit conventionality
1. The ‘written’ and the ‘non-written’ in international law The ‘written’ is the traditional domain of lawyers, for written materials provides a tangible soil from which legal contents can be extracted and converted into binding evaluative standards (ie legal normativity) on the basis of which the behaviour of addressees is appraised. The ‘written’ is thus...
Legal normativity through tacit agreements: Putting Peru v Chile into a broader perspective / Zoom In
L’accord tacite ou l’univers parallèle du droit des traités
1. Prologue La figure de l’accord tacite nous plonge dans l’univers parallèle du droit des traités, dominé par le non-dit, par la volonté inexprimée par des mots mais non moins tangible et effective. Une dimension qui, à l’instar de l’antimatière dans l’univers, remplit dans les relations internationales les (parfois) larges interstices laissés béants par la...
Legal normativity through tacit agreements: Putting Peru v Chile into a broader perspective
Introduced by Beatrice Bonafé and Paolo Palchetti The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) expressly recognizes the admissibility of international agreements which are not concluded in written form, although they are not within the scope of the Convention (Article 2). Tacit agreements, in which obligations and commitments are implied or inferred but not...