COURSES

A. Introduction and Overview: Evans p. 187-198

B. The Making of Treaties

1. VCLT Art 13, 14, 15, 18, 24

C. Validity of a Treaty

1. The Panama Canal Treaty of 1903
2. VCLT Art. 46, 49, 50, 52, 53
3. Note on Invalidity of Treaties Under Art. 46
4. Revocation: VCLT Art. 42, 45
5. Rebus sic stantibus

   a. VCLT Art. 62
   b. International Law Commission Commentary
   c. U.S. Government Comments

D. Legal Effects of Unilateral Declarations

1. Eastern Greenland Case
2. Nuclear Effects Case
3. Case Concerning Sections 301-310 of U.S. Trade Act of 1976 (1999)

A. Overview: Evans 198-203

B. The Relevant Sources

1. VCLT Art. 31-33
2. Air France v. Saks

C. Approaches of International Tribunals

1. Summary of Bosnia v. Serbia (ICJ 2007) [Interpretation of Genocide Convention]
2. The Golder Case

A. Evans p. 209-211, 451-475

B. VCLT Art. 60, 61, 62, 70, 72, 73

C. International Law Commission, 1-3, 12, 20-42

D. Rainbow Warrior case 1990

E.  The Gabcikovo-Nagymaros case (Hungary/Slovakia)

F. Corfu Channel Case (summary)

G. Oil Platfoms Case (summary)

H. Countermeasures

1. Air Services Arbitration case

A. Background

1. U.S. Constitution (excerpts)
2. Louis Henkin, Foreign Affairs and the Constitution 
3. Curtis-Wright
4. Crosby

B. Self-Executing and Non-Self-Executing Treaties

1. Asakura v. City of Seattle
2. People of Saipan v. Dept. of Interior
3. U.S. v. Postal
4. Medellin v. Texas

C. Interpretation of Treaties

1. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
2. Sanchez-LLamas v. Oregon, US Supreme Court, June 28, 2006

D. Constitutional Limits of the Treaty Power

1. Treaties and States’ Rights

   a. Dred Scott
   b. Missouri v. Holland
   c. American Ins. Assn. v. Garamendi [Background - skim]

2. Treaties and Individual Rights

a. Reid v. Covert
b. Dames & Moore
c. Example of Claims Settlement Agreement: US-Libya, 2008

V. Applying the Law of Treaties: Human Rights Treaties

A. The Western Concept of Human Rights: Charles Taylor, Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights

B. The ICCPR and the UN Human Rights Committee

1. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966
2. First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR 
3. Overview of UN Human Rights Committee 
4. Lovelace v. Canada (1981) 
5. ***Additional Materials***

   a. Concept Paper on Unified Standing Treaty Body Proposal
   b. CEDAW and Treaty Body Reform

C. Reservations

1. Evans 204-208
2. Vienna Convention Art. 19-21
3. Reservations to the Genocide Convention (Int'l Ct. Justice) 
4. Reservations and Jurisdiction: DRC v. Rwanda (Int’l Ct of Justice)
5. US Reservations to the ICCPR

   a. U.S. Senate Resolution on the Ratification of the ICCPR
   b. US Reservations and Other States' Objections

6. Human Rights Committee, General Comment on Reservations 
7. US and UK Responses to the General Comment
8. Comment of Judge Rosalyn Higgins 
9. ***Additional Materials***

   a. Invalid Reservations: Ryan Goodman, Human Rights Treaties, Invalid Reservations, and State Consent, 96 Am. J. Int’l L. 531

D. Derogations

1. ICCPR Article 4
2. Brogan v. UK (ECHR, 1988)
3. The Human Rights Acts 1998 - Order 2001
4. ***Additional Materials***

   a. Examples of Derogations

   i.Nicaragua Derogations under ICCPR
   ii. Israel Derogations Under ICCPR

E. Interpretation of Human Rights Treaties

1. Toonen v. Australia (UN HRC, 1994) 
2. Refah Partisi v. Turkey (ECHR, 2003)

F. Breach and State Responsibility

1. Jurisdiction: Bankovic v. Belgium et al (ECHR, 2001)
2. Behrami v. France
3. R (Al-Jedda) v. Secretary of State for Defence
4. Due Diligence: Velasquez-Rodriguez (Inter-American Court): paragraphs 147-188
5. ***Additional Materials***

   a. CEDAW AT v. Hungary case