Treaty Conflict and the European Union

Jan Klabbers examines how membership of the European Union affect treaties concluded between the member and non-member states.

Jan Klabbers (Author)

9780521455466, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 December 2008

284 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm, 0.58 kg

"A work in legal epistemology that focuses on civil litigation in England and Wales, with comparative discussion of France..."
--Chronicle of Higher Education

Jan Klabbers questions how membership of the European Union affects treaties concluded between the Union's member states and third states, both when it concerns treaties concluded before EU membership and treaties concluded after joining. Following a discussion of the public international law rules on treaty conflict, the author analyzes the case-law of the European Court of Justice and examines how such conflicts are approached in state practice.

Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Introduction
2. Understanding treaty conflict
Part II. International Law: 3. The pre-Vienna convention regime
4. Drafting the Vienna convention
5. Post-Vienna convention developments
Part III. EC Law: 6. The EC and anterior treaties
7. The UN charter and the European convention
8. Posterior treaties: Conceptual issues
9. Posterior treaties: practice
10. Conclusions.

Subject Areas: Public international law [LBB], International law [LB], Law [L]