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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Unilateral Acts of States in International Law

Víctor Rodríguez Cedeño, María Isabel Torres Cazorla

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
January 2019

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 08 October 2024

Subject(s):
Development — Act of state — Sovereignty — Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties — Treaties, conclusion — Treaties, entry into force — Codification — State practice — Unilateral acts

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 A unilateral act of State may be defined as an expression of will emanating from one State or States which produces legal effects in conformity with international law (see also Unilateralism/Multilateralism). There is a very wide spectrum of behaviours covered by the designation unilateral acts and the differences among legal cultures partly account for the misunderstandings to which this topic has given rise. The former tentative definition is the result of the consensus between two different positions: a) the concept of a juridical act necessarily implies an...
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