By Jan Klabbers

Jan Klabbers questions how club of the ecu Union impacts treaties concluded among the Union's member states and 3rd states, either whilst it matters treaties concluded ahead of ecu club and treaties concluded after becoming a member of. Following a dialogue of the general public foreign legislations ideas on treaty clash, the writer analyzes the case-law of the eu courtroom of Justice and examines how such conflicts are approached in kingdom perform.

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Moreover, such conflict clauses as do exist tend merely to shift the problem. 41 Earlier writers such as Lauterpacht and McNair distinguished between conflict in which the parties were aware of existing commitments, and those where they were unaware. It is telling, perhaps, that this discussion has lost much of its relevance and is all but ignored in today’s literature. See Hersch Lauterpacht, ‘Report on the Law of Treaties’, in Yearbook of the International Law Commission, II (1953), 90–166, at p.

333–42. Most generous is Koutrakos, who devotes an entire chapter to ‘pre-membership agreements’ concluded by the member states. See Panos Koutrakos, EU International Relations Law (Oxford: Hart, 2006), ch. 8. , Koen Lenaerts and Eddy de Smijter, ‘The European Union as an Actor under International Law’, Yearbook of European Law, 19 (1999–2000), 95–138, pp. 114–22. See generally de Witte, ‘Old-fashioned Flexibility’. See above all Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, ‘Artikel 234’, in H. ), Kommentar zum EWG-Vertrag, 4th edn (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1991), pp.

Beitz suggests that this sort of abstraction is typical also for political theory: the very use of ‘ideal theory’ obscures the awareness of conflicting obligations which only become visible in the ‘non-ideal’ world. See Charles R. Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999, first published 1979), p. 171. ), Les antinomies en droit (Brussels: Bruylant, 1964). , pp. 392–404, p. 400. See Hans Kelsen, Introduction to the Problems of Legal Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, trans.

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