The termination and revision of treaties in the light of new customary international law / Nancy Kontou.
1994
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Author
Title
The termination and revision of treaties in the light of new customary international law / Nancy Kontou.
Published
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Call Number
JX4171.T5 K66 1994
ISBN
0198258429 (acid-free paper) :
Description
xvii, 169 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)30437208
Note
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Cambridge, England), 1990
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [158]-166) and index.
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Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Table of Cases
Table of Treaties
1
Introduction
1
1.1The Issue
1
1.2Definitions
2
1.3Importance of the Issue
10
2
An Overview of the Literature
16
2.1Treaty Interpretation in the Light of New Custom
16
2.2Priority between Inconsistent Obligations
19
2.3Treaty Termination or Revision Following the Development of New Custom
22
3
State Practice: The Impact of the New Law of the Sea on Prior Fisheries Agreements
37
3.1The Evolution of the General Law on Fisheries Jurisdiction
37
3.2Fisheries in the North Pacific (Russia-Japan)
40
3.3Fisheries off the Faeroe Islands (United Kingdom-Denmark)
43
3.4Fisheries in the North Atlantic and the 1964 London Fisheries Convention
46
3.5The Renegotiation of Fishing Rights in Canadian Waters
50
3.6US Participation in International Fishery Commissions
57
3.7Spanish Fishing Rights in European Community Waters
64
3.8The Fisheries Dispute between Morocco and Spain
68
4
State Practice: Other Examples
72
4.1The Extradition Regime in the East Indies
72
4.2The Treaty on the Panama Canal
74
4.3The Abolition of the Capitulations
78
4.4The Impact of New Custom on the Vienna Classification of Diplomatic Agents
85
4.5The Termination of the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of Alliance
90
4.6The Impact of the Concept of Human Rights on the Minorities Treaties
91
4.7The Abrogation of an 'Unequal' Treaty by China
96
4.8Treaties on International Watercourses
98
4.9The Shatt-al-Arab Boundary Dispute
103
4.10The Antarctic Treaty Regime
104
4.11Removal of Installations on the Continental Shelf and the 1958 Geneva Convention
107
5
Decisions of International Tribunals
109
5.1The Fisheries Jurisdiction Case (United Kingdom v. Iceland)
109
5.2The United Kingdom-France Continental Shelf Arbitration
115
5.3The Spanish Fishermen's Cases before the European Court of Justice
118
5.4The La Bretagne Arbitration
122
5.5The Namibia Advisory Opinion
124
5.6The Guinea-Bissau/Senegal Maritime Boundary Arbitration
125
5.7The Iran-US Claims Tribunal
127
6
Some Criticisms
135
6.1The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: The Significance of an Omission
135
6.2Opinio juris
140
6.3The Treaty as lex specialis
141
7
Conclusions: Supervening Custom as a Ground of Treaty Termination or Revision
145
7.1Conditions of Application
146
7.2Supervening Custom as a Fundamental Change of Circumstances
149
7.3Effect of Supervening Custom on the Treaty Relationship
150
Bibliography
158
Index
167