Monthly archive January, 2018

International Law Commission and role of subsequent practice as a means of interpretation under Articles 31 and 32 VCLT

1. Introduction Subsequent agreement and subsequent practice, as well as the method of evolutive interpretation, are vehicles of change in international law. Theoretically speaking, they can contribute to integrating a transformative process into the treaty when, as it continuously is, the international order is moving. Many of the treaties which constituted the international legal order...

Faut-il mettre la pratique dans des catégories? (à propos des travaux de la CDI sur l’interprétation des traités dans le temps)

1. Introduction Depuis quelque temps, la Commission du droit international des Nations Unies s’est fait une spécialité de dissiper les mystères qui, jusque là, faisaient le charme du droit international public: la coutume, le jus cogens, l’interprétation, bientôt peut-être les principes généraux du droit. Elle le fait selon ses méthodes de travail habituelles: approche analytique...

Subsequent practice in treaty interpretation between Article 31 and Article 32 of the Vienna Convention

Introduced by Béatrice I. Bonafé and Paolo Palchetti   In 2012 the International Law Commission started to work on ‘Subsequent agreements and subsequent practice in relation to interpretation of treaties’.  From 2013 to 2016 the Special Rapporteur, Georg Nolte, has handed down four reports where he distinguishes between ‘agreed subsequent practice’ and ‘other subsequent practice’...