PREAMBLES IN TREATY INTERPRETATION

• Published in: University of Pennsylvania law review Vol. 164; no. 5; pp. 1281 - 1343
• Main Author: Hulme, Max H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia students of the University of Pennsylvania Law School 01-04-2016; University of Pennsylvania, Law School; University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Subjects: Arbitration; COMMENTS; Commercial treaties; Constitutions; Customary law, International; Foreign investment; International agreements; International courts; International disputes; INTERNATIONAL LAW; International organizations; International relations; Interpretation and construction; Investors; Jurisprudence; Law; Legal objections; LEGITIMACY; Preambles (Law); STATUTORY INTERPRETATION; TREATIES; Tribunals; Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969 May 23); UNITED STATES
• ISSN: 0041-9907; 1942-8537

The treaty today is one of the fundamental building blocks in the global structure of international affairs. Given the astonishing proliferation of this instrument, it is unsurprising that the increasingly institutionalized practice of international law has led to the standardization of many aspects of treaties, most famously by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT). The VCLT, recognized today as embodying customary international law,focuses on rules governing the various procedural aspects of treaty practice, ranging from the formation of treaties to their termination and-most relevant to this Comment-their interpretation.