Treaty Interpretation (2nd Edition)
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The need for a user’s guide to the rules of treaty interpretation has not greatly diminished in the years since the first edition of this book. The book’s message remains the same: the rules on treaty interpretation in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties are a starting point and guide for treaty interpretation and to use them properly requires being aware of their entirety. In the most visible instances of reasoned interpretation – the decisions of courts and tribunals – increased reference to these rules has nevertheless shown some continuing and quite widespread misunderstanding and misuse of them. The two most prominent misconceptions are that the opening reference in the Vienna Convention to the ordinary meaning of terms in a treaty constitutes the whole of the general rule and that in all cases any consideration of a treaty’s preparatory work is subject to the same restrictive preconditions. There is, however, also much more in the rules which needs explanation and illustration.
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