International Law Contemporary Developments
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II. The Creation of International Norms – Treaties, Customary International Law, International Organizations, and Private Norm-Creation

A. Treaties

Case Act, 1 U.S.C. 112b

1. The Formation of Treaties

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Article 2

Restatement Section 301, Comment & Reporters Notes

a. United States-Japan FCN Treaty

b. Economic Cooperation Agreement

c. 2001 Declaration of G-7 Finance Ministers

Notes and Questions

Notes and Questions

2. Observance and Interpretation of Treaties

Restatement Section 325

Notes and Questions

3. Invalidity of Treaties

4. Jus Cogens

Edward McWhinney, United Nations Law Making

Anthony Aust, Modern Treaty Law and Practice

Questions

5. Termination and Suspension of the Operations of Treaties

Vienna Convention, Article 60

Notes and Questions

Case Concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Porject (Hungary v. Slovakia)

Questions

6. Reservations

Richard W. Edwards, Jr., Reservations to Treaties

Vienna Convention, Articles 19, 20, 21, 23

Notes and Questions

7. Withdrawal from or Denunciation of a Treaty

Notes and Questions

B. Customary International Law

1. Formation of Customary International Law

I.A. Shearer, Starke's International Law

International Law Association, Statement of Principles Applicable to the Formation of General Customary International Law

Notes and Questions

2. The Effect of Treaties on Customary International Law

Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Rudolph Bernhardt ed.)

Restatement Section 102, Comment

3. The Effect of General Assembly Resolutions

Oscar Schachter, International Law in Theory and Practice

Notes and Questions

C. International Organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations

    (NGOs) as Creators of Law

1. International Organizations

Notes and Questions

2. Multinational Corporations

Lung-Ghu Chen, An Introduction to Contemporary International Law

Notes and Questions

3. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Jessica T. Mathews, Power Shift

Debora Spar & James Dail, Of Measurement and Mission: Accounting for Performance in Non-Governmental Organizations

Questions

Jeff Gerth, Where Business Rules: Forging Global Regulations That Put Industry First

Questions

D. General Principles of Law

Malcolm N. Shaw, International Law

Notes and Questions

Bibliography

 

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