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Contents
- Preliminary Material
- Main Text
- Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of United Nations Treaties
- Part I Evolution—UN Treaty-Making in Practice and in Theory
- Ch.1 The UN Charter and Its Evolution
- Ch.2 Treaty-Making in International Organizations: international relations theory
- Ch.3 Treaty-Making at the United Nations: the view from the secretariat
- Ch.4 The Role of Treaties in Pursuing the Objectives of the UN Charter
- Ch.5 The Place of Treaties in the Codification and Progressive Development of International Law
- Ch.6 The Choice of a Treaty: hard law versus soft law
- Part II Practice—Scholarly and Practitioner Accounts of UN Treaty-Making
- A International Peace and Security
- Ch.7A United Nations Weapons Control Treaties
- Ch.7B Creating from Chaos: practitioner reflections on multilateral treaty-making
- Ch.8A Terrorism
- Ch.8B Terrorism: practitioner reflection
- 1 UN treaty-making
- 2 Sectoral approach
- 3 Contemporary threats
- 4 Conclusion
- Ch.9 The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
- B Economic and Social Development
- Ch.10 Environment and Sustainable Development
- 1 Problem-Based Clusters of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs)
- 1.1 Global Response to the Threat of Climate Change, Desertification, and Ozone Layer Destruction
- 1.2 Chemicals, Wastes, and Transboundary Air Pollutants
- 1.3 Biodiversity, Wildlife, and Species at Risk
- 1.4 Protection of Transboundary Freshwater Systems and Wetlands
- 1.5 Protection of the World’s Oceans and Marine Resources
- 1.6 Regional and Bilateral Environmental Innovations
- 2 The UN Role in Treaty-Making to Address Environmental Problems
- 3 UN Treaty-Making to Promote Sustainable Development Solutions
- 4 Contributions of International Law on the Environment and Sustainable Development toward Achieving the UN Charter
- 1 Problem-Based Clusters of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs)
- Ch.11 The ILO’s Standard-Setting: the first one hundred years
- 1 Origins and Purpose of International Labor Standards
- 2 The Standard-Setting Process
- 3 Controlling Features of International Labor Conventions
- 4 Constitutional Theory and Practice on Interpretation of International Labor Conventions
- 5 Review of Standards and Abrogation of Obsolete Conventions
- 6 Supervision of Application of International Labor Standards
- 7 Concluding Remarks
- Ch.12 Women
- Ch.13 Drugs and Crime
- Ch.14 Trade and Development
- Preliminary Material
- 1 The Founding of the Multilateral Trading System
- 2 The UN and the Aborted Attempt to Establish the International Trade Organization (ITO)
- 3 The Demise of the ITO and the Birth of UNCTAD: UNCTAD and Its Impact on Multilateral Trade
- 4 The UN and the GATT/WTO: A Continuous Interplay
- 5 Conclusion
- Ch.15 Culture
- Ch.16 The Practice of UN Treaty-Making concerning Science
- Ch.17A Health
- 1 The Evolution of International Health Law
- 2 Globalization and the Expanding Domain of International Health Law
- 3 Health and Human Rights Treaties
- 4 Linkage and the Scope of International Health Law
- 5 The Role of United Nations in the International Lawmaking Process
- 6 Examples of World Health Organization International Lawmaking
- 7 Conclusion
- Ch.17B Health: practitioner comment
- Ch.18 Intellectual Property
- Ch.10 Environment and Sustainable Development
- C Human Rights
- Ch.19 The Human Rights Treaty Body System
- Ch.20 The Covenants
- Ch.21 The Committees on Human Rights and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Ch.22 United Nations Treaty-Making: refugees and stateless persons
- Ch.23A International Criminal Law and UN Treaties
- Ch.23B International Criminal Law: practitioner reflection
- D International Law
- Ch.24A Law of Treaties
- Ch.24B Law of Treaties: practitioner reflection
- Ch.25A Law of the Sea
- Ch.25B Negotiating the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: a practitioner’s reflection
- Ch.26 Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and Specialized Agencies
- Ch.27 Diplomatic and Consular Relations
- Ch.28 International Commercial Arbitration
- Ch.29 Responsibility of States and International Organizations
- A International Peace and Security
- Part III Technique—Innovation in Treaty-Making at the United Nations
- Ch.30 The Negotiation of Multilateral Treaties at the United Nations a negotiator’s view
- 1 The United Nations and the Techniques of Treaty-Making
- 2 Negotiating Multilateral Treaties within the UN: A Few Illustrations
- 2.1 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)
- 2.2 Convention on Special Missions (1969)
- 2.3 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, Including Diplomatic Agents (1973)
- 2.4 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)
- 2.5 United Nations Convention against Corruption (2003)
- 2.6 United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property (2004)
- 3 Lessons to Be Drawn
- 4 Conclusions
- Ch.31 The Participation of Nonstate Actors in the Multilateral Treaty Process
- Ch.32 Participation of International Organizations in UN Treaties
- Ch.33 The Role of the United Nations in Promoting Transparency in the International Treaty Framework: a view through the registration and publication of treaties under article 102 of the charter of the united nations
- 1 The Origins of Article 102 of the Charter: “Open Covenants of Peace, Openly Arrived At”
- 2 The Implementation of Article 102: Toward Open Diplomacy?
- 3 A View of the International Treaty Framework through Article 102 of the Charter
- 4 The Impact of Article 102 and Priorities for Reform
- Ch.34 The Role of the Secretary-General of the United Nations as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties
- 1 The Nature of the Role of the Secretary-General as Depositary
- 2 Depositary Functions and Recent Features of the Secretary-General’s Depositary Practice
- 2.1 Provision of Advice and Application and Interpretation of Final Clauses
- 2.1.1 Designation of the Depositary and Assignment of Functions Other than Depositary Functions
- 2.1.2 Authentic Languages
- 2.1.3 Opening for Signature
- 2.1.4 Participation Clauses: Signature and Consent to Be Bound
- 2.1.5 Entry into Force of the Treaty
- 2.1.6 Amendment Procedures and Entry into Force of Amendments
- 2.1.7 Withdrawal or Denunciation
- 2.2 Other Depositary Functions
- 2.3 Outreach Activities by the Depositary
- 2.1 Provision of Advice and Application and Interpretation of Final Clauses
- 3 Conclusions
- Ch.30 The Negotiation of Multilateral Treaties at the United Nations a negotiator’s view
- Further Material