Advanced Course on the Law of Treaties - Sources and Interpretation in International Law
Dates:
- Tue 30 Oct 2018 11.00 - 13.00
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2018-10-30 11:00
2018-10-30 13:00
Europe/Paris
Advanced Course on the Law of Treaties - Sources and Interpretation in International Law
This seminar will explore a range of issues pertaining to the law of treaties as a branch of public international law. The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) will form a frame of reference for the discussions but not be subjected to systematic study. Rather, the course seeks to go beyond and behind the VCLT through in-depth examination of specific topics that are indicative of more general issues and problems and often suggest that the VCLT should not be seen as complete codification of customary law or an instrument of constitutional nature but, rather, as a lex generalis that will be helpful when there are no more specific rules. Among the topics to be discussed are:
• The concept of treaty and its various manifestations;
• Methods of resolving conflicts between treaties;
• The special character of human rights treaties (including the question concerning reservations to human rights treaties);
• Principal sources of international law (treaties, custom and general principles of law) and the interrelationships between them;
• The concept of “soft law”;
• Rules of interpretation in the VCLT and their application;
• The interplay between primary norms as contained in ‘legislative’ treaties and secondary norms reflected in articles on state responsibility;
• The relationship between domestic law and international obligations in public international law and human rights law; the doctrine of self-executing treaties.
The course is addressed to researchers focusing on public international law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and human rights law, or those wishing to gain a perspective on the sources of international law and develop their methodological skills in utilizing international treaties and non-treaty international instruments in their research. Hence, this course provides skills in the methodology of international law, also for researchers whose own thesis is not in international law but who will need to rely on international law sources in some respects.
All participants are required to read the assigned materials and actively engage in seminar discussions. Reflection paragraphs will be requested in advance for each session. The option of including of participant presentations in the seminar series, as an alternative to submitting reflection paragraphs, will be discussed in the first session.
Sala del Camino, Villa Salviati
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Sala del Camino, Villa Salviati
This seminar will explore a range of issues pertaining to the law of treaties as a branch of public international law. The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) will form a frame of reference for the discussions but not be subjected to systematic study. Rather, the course seeks to go beyond and behind the VCLT through in-depth examination of specific topics that are indicative of more general issues and problems and often suggest that the VCLT should not be seen as complete codification of customary law or an instrument of constitutional nature but, rather, as a lex generalis that will be helpful when there are no more specific rules. Among the topics to be discussed are:
• The concept of treaty and its various manifestations;
• Methods of resolving conflicts between treaties;
• The special character of human rights treaties (including the question concerning reservations to human rights treaties);
• Principal sources of international law (treaties, custom and general principles of law) and the interrelationships between them;
• The concept of “soft law”;
• Rules of interpretation in the VCLT and their application;
• The interplay between primary norms as contained in ‘legislative’ treaties and secondary norms reflected in articles on state responsibility;
• The relationship between domestic law and international obligations in public international law and human rights law; the doctrine of self-executing treaties.
The course is addressed to researchers focusing on public international law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and human rights law, or those wishing to gain a perspective on the sources of international law and develop their methodological skills in utilizing international treaties and non-treaty international instruments in their research. Hence, this course provides skills in the methodology of international law, also for researchers whose own thesis is not in international law but who will need to rely on international law sources in some respects.
All participants are required to read the assigned materials and actively engage in seminar discussions. Reflection paragraphs will be requested in advance for each session. The option of including of participant presentations in the seminar series, as an alternative to submitting reflection paragraphs, will be discussed in the first session.
- Location:
- Sala del Camino, Villa Salviati
- Affiliation:
- Department of Law
- Type:
- Seminar
- Organiser:
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Prof. Martin Scheinin (European University Institute)
- Contact:
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Claudia de Concini (EUI - Law)
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