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The contractual nature of the optional clause /
The International Law Commission's Guiding Principles for Unilateral Declarations and its Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties are among the recent developments in international law. These developments support a new assessment on how optional clauses (eg Article 62(1) of the American C...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Hart Publishing,
2015.
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| Colección: | Studies in international law (Oxford, England) ;
v. 54. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Summary of Contents; Detailed Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Cases; Table of Dissenting Opinions, Separate Opinions and Declarations; Table of Miscellaneous Documents; Introduction; I. The Reasons for this Work; II. The Course of this Work; III. Terminology; 1. The Structure of Obligations Under the Optional Clause; I. An Obligation Pre Seisin?; A. The 'Obligation' in Article 36(2) of the Statute; B. The Genesis of the 'Obligation' in Article 36(2) of the Statute.
- C. The 'Obligation' in the Context with Other Sources of Jurisdictioni. The Sources of Jurisdiction Provided for by Article 36(1) of the Statute; ii. Agreements Pre Seisin and the Forum Prorogatum; iii. Comparison of the Optional Clause to Ad Hoc Jurisdiction; iv. Result; D. State Practice and the Jurisprudence of the Two Courts; E. Result; II. An Obligation Towards Other States?; A. Article 36 of the Statute; i. Article 36(2) of the Statute: 'In Relation to Any Other State Accepting the Same Obligation'; ii. The Genesis of the Optional Clause: A Right for Smaller States.
- Iii. In Light of Article 36(1) of the Statute: Treaties Establishing Reciprocal Rights and ObligationsB. State Practice: The Optional Clause as a Source for the Right to File an Application; C. Jurisprudence: 'Rights and Obligations Deriving from Article 36'; D. Comparison to Other Optional Clauses; i. Article 45 and Article 62 ACHR; ii. Articles 25 and 46 ECHR (old); iii. Article 41 CCPR; iv. Result; E. Conclusion; 2. The Nature of the Optional Clause; I. Unilateral Declarations, Bilateral and Multilateral Treaties; A. Pure and 'False' Unilateral Declarations.
- I. Optional Clause Declarations cannot be Purely Unilateral Declarationsii. 'False Unilateral Declarations'; iii. Result; B. Bi- and Multilateral Treaties; II. Article 36 of the Statute; A. The Wording of Article 36 of the Statute; i. Article 36(2) of the Statute; a. The Reference to the 'Special Agreement'; b. The Fact that States 'May Declare'; 1. Optional Protocols and Optional Clauses are Treaties; 2. The Optional Clause is not Different in this Regard; ii. Article 36(3) of the Statute; B. The Genesis of the Optional Clause.
- I. The Drafting of the Statute of the Permanent Court: The Necessity for an Additional Treatyii. The Drafting of the Statute of the Court: No Major Changes; iii. The Preservation of Prior Optional Clause Declarations and Compromissory Clauses; iv. Result; C. The Role of the Optional Clause Besides Other Treaties Establishing Jurisdiction; III. The Nature of the Optional Clause as Seen by States; A. Ambiguous General Remarks; B. The Reasons for Concluding the General Treaties Besides the Optional Clause; IV. The Nature of the Optional Clause in Jurisprudence.