Multilateral Treaty-Making: The Current Status of Challenges to and Reforms Needed in the International Legislative Process

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-90-411-1448-8
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 152 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 299 g

Reihe: Nijhoff Law Specials

Although the Forum Geneva, organized by the American Society of International Law and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, held in Switzerland, was designed to focus on the rules relating to the forms and procedures of multilateral treaty-making, inevitably the content of the norms themselves came to the forefront of the discussion. The participants raised crucial and timely issues relating to human rights and the environment, in recognition of the momentous impact of social change.

This book addresses the complexities of questions such as the following:

Is multilateral treaty-making the most appropriate tool for meeting the new needs and requirements of today's world?

Deep and pervasive changes in the fabric of international society compel attention to new legal issues resulting from State succession, protection of minorities, and ethnic strife. Is codification the best tool for giving these matters normative substance?

The 50th birthday of the International Law Commission--the codification body par excellence--has also led to stock-taking over its role. Who are the decision-makers invested with the power of change and the introduction of new rules?

Who the decision-makers are is crucial to the substantive content of the law. All agree that we must transcend the state-centric Westphalian legacy in order to capture the diversity of social forces operating today. Yet, while international organisations have been formally bestowed with legal capacity to conclude treaties, other important and influential actors (such as NGOs and MNCs) continue to be relegated to the sidelines of international law-making.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gowlland-Debbas, Vera

Hadj-Sahraoui, Hassiba

Hayashi, Nobuo

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword. Introductory Remarks; Chair: V. Gowlland-Debbas Multilateral Treaties as a Source of International Law; L. Johnson. Keynote Address - Responding to New Needs through Codification and Progressive Development; A. Pellet. Some Reflections on the Relationship of Treaties and Soft Law; A. Boyle. Participation in Multilateral Treaty-Making by Non-State Entities; Chair: A. Clapham. Participation of Non-Governmental Entities in Treaty-Making: The Case of Conventional Weapons; L. Doswald-Beck. Multionational Enterprises and Treaty-Making - A Contribution to the Discussion on Non-State Actors and the `Subjects' of International Law; P. Malanczuk. Luncheon Address; Chair: R. Rosenstock. The International Treaty-Making Process: Paradise Lost, or Humpty Dumpty? C.N. Brower. Multilateral Treaties and the Collective Interest; Chair: S. McCaffrey. How Distinctive are Treaties Representing Collective Interest? The Case of Human Rights Treaties; B. Simma. Multilateral Environmental Treaty-Making; C. Redgwell. Implementing Multilateral Treaties at the Domestic and International Levels; Chair: E.-U. Petersmann. Implementing Treaties in Domestic Law: from `Pacta Sunt Servanda' to `Anything Goes'? W. Kälin. The ILO's Standard-Setting Action: International Legislation or Treaty Law? F. Maupain. Concluding Remarks; G. Abi-Saab. List of Participants.