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The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Travaux Préparatoires. Compiled by Dr. Ralf Günther Wetzel. Edited and prefaced by Professor Dr. Dietrich Rauschning. Frankfurt am Main: Alfred Metzner Verlag GmbH, 1978. Pp. 543. DM88. In English and German.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Book Reviews and Notes
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1980

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References

1 S. Rosenne, The Law of Treaties. A Guide to the Legislative History of the Vienna Convention (1970). See review article by Herbert W. Briggs, 65 AJIL 705– 12 (1971).

2 As of December 31, 1977, 31 states had accepted the Convention as binding by ratification or accession. See Rosenne, note 1 supra, at p. 5. Briggs notes that the number has risen to 33. See United States Ratification of the Vienna Convention, 73 AJIL 470–73 (1979).

3 To the cases may be added the 1978 Aegean Continental Shelf case before the ICJ, the Beagle Channel arbitration of 1977, and the Franco-British Delimitation of the Continental Shelf arbitration of 1977. See Briggs, note 2 supra, at 471–72.