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s.III Treaty Application, 17 Treaty Bodies and Regimes

Geir Ulfstein

From: The Oxford Guide to Treaties (1st Edition)

Edited By: Duncan B. Hollis

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Content type:
Book content
Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Published in print:
01 July 2012
ISBN:
9780199601813

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 02 October 2023

Subject(s):
UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) — Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
Treaties will generally set out the substantive rights and obligations of the treaty parties. But treaties are also used to establish institutions for international cooperation. Such institutions may take many forms such as formal international organizations (IOs) or international courts. But treaties may also set up organs that are neither IOs nor international courts in the traditional sense. Such organs may be labelled ‘treaty bodies’.1Today, treaty bodies serve various functions. Some have many characteristics of an IO. In the international environmental...
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