The Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties: A Commentary

by Pierre Klein and Olivier Corten

The 1969 and 1986 Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties are essential components of the contemporary international legal order. They aim at regulating what has become the main source of public international law and a crucial tool in inter-state relations. The Vienna Conventions codify to a significant extent the customary rules that pre-existed in the field, but also put forward innovative concepts, such as jus cogens. In spite of their importance,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199546649
• ISBN13: 9780199546640
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1128 Pages
• Weight: 7.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.3" x 6.9" x 9.8"