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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969)

Anthony Aust†, Oliver Dörr

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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:
March 2023

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 31 May 2023

Subject(s):
Customary international law — Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties — State succession, international agreements — Travaux préparatoires — Treaties, amendments and modification — Treaties, conclusion

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). 

Editor’s Note: This entry was originally written in 2006 by the late Anthony Aust, CMG (1942–2017), and was updated by Oliver Dörr in March 2023. The original version of this entry was published in the 2012 print edition of the Encyclopedia (R Wolfrum (ed) The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (OUP Oxford 2012) vol X, 709–14). 1 The law of treaties is the body of rules which govern what is a treaty, how it is made and brought into force, amended, terminated, and generally operates. Apart from issues of ius cogens, it is not concerned with the...
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