Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

• 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (between States)
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/treatfra.htm]

• 1986 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations)
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/trbtstat.htm]

The making of treaties

• On the freedom of States as regards the modalities and form of agreement see the 1994 decision of the International Court of Justice in Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain
  [www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idocket/iqb/iqbframe.htm]

Reservations

• International Court of Justice, summary of the 1951 Advisory Opinion on Reservations to Treaties
  [www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idecisions/isummaries/ippcgsummary510528.htm]
• Reports of the Special Rapporteur, Alain Pellet, to the International Law Commission:
  • Third Report (A/CN.4/491)
    [www.un.org/law/ilc/sessions/50/doclist.htm]
• Fourth Report (A/CN.4/499)
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/sessions/51/51docs.htm]
• Fifth Report (A/CN.4/508)
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/sessions/52/52docs.htm]
• Sixth Report (A/CN.4/518)
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/sessions/53/53docs.htm]
• Seventh Report (A/CN.4/526)
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/sessions/54/54docs.htm]

• Reports of the International Law Commission. The works of the ILC on reservations to treaties, based on the reports submitted by the Special Rapporteur, are summarized in the annual reports, namely:
  • 1996 Annual Report
    [www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/1996/96repfra.htm]
• 1997 Annual Report
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/1997/97repfra.htm]
• 1998 Annual Report
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/1998/98repfra.htm]
• 1999 Annual Report
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/1999/english/99repfra.htm]
• 2000 Annual Report
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/2000/repfra.htm]
• 2001 Annual Report
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/2001/2001report.htm]
• 2002 Annual Report
  [www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/2002/2002report.htm]

Reservations to Human Rights Treaties

• 1994 General Comment of the UN Human Rights Committee
  [www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/69c55b086f72957
  ec12563ed004ecf7a?Opendocument]

• Decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the Belilos case
  [cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?item=1&portal=hbkm&action=html&highlight=belilos&sessionid=
  1384966&skin=hudoc-en]

• Decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the Weber case
  [cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?item=1&portal=hbkm&action=html&highlight=weber&sessionid=
  1384966&skin=hudoc-en]

• Decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the Loizidu case
  [cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?item=1&portal=hbkm&action=html&highlight=Loizidou&sessionid=
  1384966&skin=hudoc-en]

Interpretation of treaties

On the rules on interpretation of treaties, see the Judgement of 13 February 1994, paragraphs 35-56) of the International Court of Justice, in Territorial Dispute (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Chad)
[www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icases/idt/idtframe.htm]

On the "implied powers doctrine" see the Advisory Opinions of the International Court of Justice in the following cases:

• Reparations (1949), summary
  [www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idecisions/isummaries/iisunsummary490411.htm]
• Effects of Awards of Compensation Made by the UN Administrative Tribunal (1954), summary
  [www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idecisions/isummaries/iunacsummary540713.htm]
• Expenses, summary
  [www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idecisions/isummaries/iceunsummary620720.htm]
• Namibia, summary
  [www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idecisions/isummaries/inamsummary710621.htm]
• Legality of the Use of Force by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict
  [www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icases/ianw/ianwframe.htm]

Denunciation of treaties

• On denunciation of Human Rights Treaties, 1997 General Comment of the UN Human Rights Committee
  [www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/06b6d70077b4df2c8025655400387939?Opendocument]