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Mr. Duncan B. Hollis

Mr. Duncan B. Hollis
Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law
Temple Law School

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Law of Treaties
Law of Treaties
Part I
Situating Treaties in History, Functions,
and Sources
Video | Audio
(13/12/2021, 32 minutes)

Part II
Defining the Treaty and Assessing
the Alternatives
Video | Audio
(13/12/2021, 45 minutes)

Part III
Treaty Formation - Negotiation, Consent,
Entry into Force and Provisional Application
Video | Audio
(13/12/2021, 44 minutes)

Part IV
Limiting Treaties - Validity Rules
and Reservations
Video | Audio
(13/12/2021, 35 minutes)

Part V
Treaties in Operation - Interpretation,
Domestic Application, Amendments,
and Treaty Exit
Video | Audio
(13/12/2021, 42 minutes)

Law of Treaties
Law of Treaties
A. Legal Instruments

Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Geneva, 30 October 1947, United Nations, Treaty Series, Vol. 55, p. 187.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Paris, 9 December 1948, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 78, p. 277.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field,  Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, p. 31.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, p. 85.

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Prisoners of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, p. 135.

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, p. 287.

Convention, Supplementary to the Warsaw Convention, for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air Performed by a Person Other than the Contracting Carrier, Guadalajara, 18 September 1961, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 500, p. 31.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Vienna, 23 May 1969, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1155, p. 331.

Treaty on the limitation of anti-ballistic missile systems, Moscow, 26 May 1972, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 944, p. 13.

Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, Final Act, Helsinki, 1 August 1975.

Panama Canal Treaty, Washington, 7 September 1977, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1280, p. 3.

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, Oslo, 18 September 1997, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2056, p. 211.

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Montego Bay, 10 December 1982, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, p.3.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations, Vienna, 21 March 1986.

Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, Montreal, 16 September 1989, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1522, p. 3.

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Rome, 17 July 1998, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, p. 3, as amended.

United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, New York, 15 November 2000, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, p. 209.

WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Geneva, 21 May 2003, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2302, p. 166.

Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, Honolulu, 5 September 2004, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2275, p.43.

Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea and the Government of Australia, relating to the transfer to, and assessment and settlement in, Papa New Guinea of certain persons and related issues, 6 August 2013.

Paris Agreement, Paris, 12 December 2015.

B. Documents

International Law Commission, Analytical Guide to the Work of the International Law Commission on the Law of Treaties.

Agreement on the Skagit River between the Province of British Columbia and the City of Seattle, 30 March 1984.

Non-legally binding authoritative statement of principles for a global consensus on the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests (A/CONF.151/26, 14 June 1992).

Human Rights Committee, General Comment 24: Issues Relating to Reservations Made upon Ratification or Accession to the Covenant or the Optional Protocols thereto, or in Relation to Declarations under Article 41 of the Covenant (CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.6, 11 November 1994).

Human Rights Committee, Report of the fiftieth session (A/50/40, 3 October 1995).

Human Rights Committee, Report of the fifty-first session (A/51/40, 16 September 1996).

Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties, 1999.

International Law Commission, Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts with commentaries, 2001.

International Law Commission, Guiding Principles applicable to unilateral declarations of States capable of creating legal obligations, with commentaries thereto, 2006.

Memorandum of Principles and Procedures between the Republic of Moldova and the State of North Carolina (USA) concerning their desire to strengthen their good relations, 20 January 2010.

International Law Commission, Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties, 2011.

International Law Commission, Draft articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations, 2011.

International Law Commission, Draft conclusions on subsequent agreements and subsequent practice in relation to the interpretation of treaties, 2018.

Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, 12 November 2018.

Organization of American States, Guidelines of the Inter-American Juridical Committee on Binding and Non-Binding Agreements, 1 November 2020.

International Law Commission, Analytical Guide to the work of the International Law Commission on Peremptory norms of general international law.

C. Jurisprudence

Permanent Court of International Justice, Case of the S.S. "Wimbledon" (United Kingdom, France, Italy & Japan  v. Germany), Judgment of 17 August 1923, P.C.I.J., Series A, No.1, p. 16.

Permanent Court of International Justice, The case of the S.S. "Lotus", Judgment of 7 September 1927, P.C.I.J., Series A, No. 10., p. 5.

International Court of Justice, Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 1949, p. 174.

International Court of Justice, Reservations to the Convention on Genocide, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 1951, p. 15.

International Court of Justice, Case concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia v. Thailand), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1962, p. 6.

International Court of Justice, Aegean Sea Continental Shelf, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1978, p. 3.

International Court of Justice, Maritime Delimitation in the Area between Greenland and Jan Mayen (Denmark v. Norway), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1993, p. 38.

International Court of Justice, Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain, Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1994, p. 112.

International Court of Justice, Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 1996, p. 226.

International Court of Justice, Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1997, p. 7.

International Court of Justice, Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria: Equatorial Guinea intervening), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1998, p. 275.

European Court of Human Rights, Case of Loizidou v. Turkey, Judgment of 28 July 1998, no. 15318/89. 

Permanent Court of Arbitration, Iron Rhine Arbitration (Belgium/Netherlands), PCA Case No. 2003-02, Award, 24 May 2005.

International Court of Justice, Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2005, p. 168.

International Court of Justice, Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2010, p. 14.

Permanent Court of Arbitration, Hulley Enterprises Limited (Cyprus) v. The Russian Federation, UNCITRAL, PCA Case No. 2005-03/AA226, Final Award, 18 July 2014.

Permanent Court of Arbitration, Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man) v. The Russian Federation, UNCITRAL, PCA Case No. 2005-04/AA227, Final Award, 18 July 2014.

Permanent Court of Arbitration, Veteran Petroleum Limited (Cyprus) v. The Russian Federation, UNCITRAL, PCA Case No. 2005-05/AA228, Final Award, 18 July 2014.

Permanent Court of Arbitration, Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitration (Mauritius v. United Kingdom), PCA Case No. 2011-03, Award, 15 March 2015.

Permanent Court of Arbitration, The South China Sea Arbitration (The Republic of Philippines v. The People's Republic of China), PCA Case No. 2013-19, Award, 12 July 2016.

D. Doctrine

M. Koskenniemi, From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

S. Villalpando, The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: Lights and Shadows, United Nations Audiovisual Library, 15 March 2017.