The Oxford Guide to Treaties

Duncan B. Hollis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple University's Beasley School of Law, a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and an elected member of the OAS Inter-American Juridical Committee and the American Law Institute. He is the editor (with Allen Weiner) of one of the leading U.S. textbooks, International Law (7th ed. 2018) and he co-edited and co-authored National Treaty Law & Practice (2005), which surveyed nineteen States' law and practice involving treaties. Prior to joining the Temple faculty, Professor Hollis served from 1998 to 2004 in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. During his tenure at the State Department, he worked for several years as the attorney-adviser for treaty affairs, addressing legal and constitutional issues associated with U.S. treaties.

Duncan B. Hollis: Introduction
Part I: Foundational Issues
1: Duncan B. Hollis: Defining Treaties
2: Jean d'Aspremont: Current Theorizations about the Treaty in International Law
3: Timothy Meyer: Alternatives to Treaty-Making-Informal Agreements
4: Lisa L. Martin: Compliance or Effectiveness? Assessing the Reach (and Limits) of Treaty-Making
Part II: The Treaty-Makers
5: Olufemi Elias: Who Can Make Treaties? International Organizations
6: Marise Cremona: Who Can Make Treaties? The European Union
7: Tom Grant: Who Can Make Treaties? Other Subjects of International Law
8: Kal Raustiala: NGOs in International Treatymaking
Part III: Treaty Formation
9: Carlos Iván Fuentes and Santiago Villalpando: Making the Treaty
10: Danae Azaria: Provisional Application of Treaties
11: Arancha Hinojal-Oyarbide: Managing the Process of Treaty Formation: Depositaries and Registration
12: Edward T Swaine: Treaty Reservations
Part IV: Treaty Application
13: Syméon Karagiannis: The Relationship(s) between Treaties and Territory
14: Jutta Brunnée: Treaty Amendments
15: David Sloss: Domestic Application of Treaties
16: Gerhard Hafner and Gregor Novak: State Succession in Respect of Treaty Relationships
17: Geir Ulfstein: Treaty Bodies and Regimes
18: Christopher Borgen: Treaty Conflicts and Systemic Fragmentation
Part V: Treaty Interpretation
19: Richard Gardiner: The Vienna Convention Rules on Treaty Interpretation
20: Eirik Bjorge and Robert Kolb: The Interpretation of Treaties over Time
21: Basak Çali: Specialized Rules of Treaty Interpretation: Human Rights
22: Catherine Brölmann: Specialized Rules of Treaty Interpretation: International Organizations (IOs)
Part VI: Avoiding or Exiting Treaty Commitments
23: Jan Klabbers: The Validity and Invalidity of Treaties
24: Bruno Simma and Christian J Tams: Reacting Against Treaty Breaches
25: Malgosia Fitzmaurice: Exceptional Circumstances and Treaty Commitments
26: Laurence R Helfer: Terminating Treaties
Part VII: Treaty Clauses and Instruments
Initial Decisions on Treaty-Making
Conditions on Joining a Treaty
Constituting the Treaty and its Dissemination
Applying the Treaty
Amendments
The End of Treaty Relations