Includes bibliographical references and index.

The treaty on treaties / Richard D. Kearney and Robert E. Dalton -- What is an agreement in international law? / Kelvin Widdows -- A mirage in the sand? Distinguishing binding and non-binding relations between states / Christine Chinkin -- The significance of the registration or non-registration of an international agreement in determining whether or not it is a treaty / D.N. Hutchinson -- Some problems regarding the object and purpose of treaties / Jan Klabbers -- The international legal obligations of signatories to an unratified treaty / Martin A. Rogoff -- Universality or integrity? Some reflections on reservations to general multilateral treaties / Catherine Redgwell -- The international law commission's draft articles upon interpretation : textuality redivivus' / Myres S. McDougal -- Vae Victis or woe to the negotiators! Your treaty of our 'interpretation' of it? / Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice -- Varieties of approach to treaty interpretation: with special reference to the draft convention on the law of treaties before the Vienna Diplomatic Conference / Francis G. Jacobs -- Theory and practice of treaty interpretation / Maarten Bos -- Problems concerning the validity of treaties / T.O. Elias -- Down the Danube: the Vienna Convention on the law of treaties and the case concerning the Gabcïkovo-Nagymaros project / Daniel Reichert-Facilides -- The concept of Jus Cogens in the Vienna Convention on the law of treaties / Merlin M. Magallona -- Unilateral denunciation of treaties : the Vienna Convention and the international court of justice / Herbert W. Briggs -- Nonperformance of international agreements / Christine Chinkin.