Treaties and Subsequent Practice

Georg Nolte is Professor of International Law at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He is a member of the UN's International Law Commission and the chair of the Commission's Study Group on Treaties over Time. He has published widely in the field of general international law, and he is one of the co-editors of our Commentary on the UN Charter (3rd edition, 2012).

• 1. Introduction ; PART 1: SUBSEQUENT PRACTICE AMONG THE DIFFERENT MEANS OF INTERPRETATION ; 2. Subsequent Agreements and Practice within the Vienna Convention ; 3. Keeping Subsequent Agreements and Practice in Their Right Limits ; 4. Subsequent Agreements and Practice from a Consensualist Perspective ; 5. Some Problems Arising in Connection with Subsequent Agreements and Practice ; PART 2: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SUBSEQUENT PRACTICE IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ; 6. Subsequent Practice, Practices and 'Family Resemblance': Towards Embedding Subsequent Practice in its Operative Milieu ; 7. The Relevance of Subsequent Agreements and Practice for Treaty Law to Date and in the Future ; 8. Subsequent Practice: The Battle over Interpretive Power ; 9. TBC ; PART 3: SUBSEQUENT PRACTICE BETWEEN INTERPRETATION, INFORMAL MODIFICATION, AND FORMAL AMENDMENT ; 10. Subsequent Agreements and Practice: Between Interpretation, Informal Modification, and Formal Amendment ; 11. Subsequent Practice Between Interpretation, Informal Modification, and Formal Amendment: A Comment ; 12. Law, Time and Change: The Self-Regulatory Function of Subsequent Practice ; PART 4: SUBSEQUENT PRACTICE AND THE DOMESTIC LEVEL ; 13. Domestic Constitutional Concerns with Respect to the Use of Subsequent Agreements and Practice at the International Level ; 14. Subsequent Agreements and Practice: Domestic Constitutions, Courts, and Legitimacy ; 15. Treaty Interpretation, Subsequent Agreements and Practice, and Domestic Constitutions ; PART 5: ILC STUDY GROUP ON TREATIES OVER TIME ; Introductory Report of the Study Group on Treaties over Time ; Second Report of the ILC Study Group on Treaties over Time