Celebrating 50 Years of the VCLT: Judges Do Well to Remember the VCLT as the Treaty on Treaties: Treaty Compliance and Interpretation By National Judges is Not a Box of Chocolates
Those applying treaties and interpreting them must remember two salient points: (1) as international adjudicators or as members of the judiciary they must apply a treaty not on the basis of discretionary powers and a judicial hunch but on the basis of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) and (2) lack of…