Treaties, Termination

Anthony Aust†

Content type: Encyclopedia entries

Product: Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law
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Module: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International
Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated: June 2006

Subject(s):
Good faith — Customary international law — General principles of international law — BITs (Bilateral
Investment Treaties) — Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties — Treaties, effect for third states —
Treaties, invalidity, termination, suspension, withdrawal — Treaties, successive — Unilateral acts
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From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved.date:
21 December 2021
 1 Denunciation denotes a unilateral act by which a party seeks to terminate its participation
in a treaty (Unilateral Acts of States in International Law). Lawful denunciation of a
bilateral treaty (Treaties) terminates it. Although denunciation is also used in relation to a
multilateral treaty, the better term is withdrawal. Withdrawal of a party from a multilateral
treaty will not normally result in its termination. But, for simplicity, termination will here be
used to describe both termination of a bilateral treaty and withdrawal from a multilateral
treaty. 2...

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From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved.date:
21 December 2021