INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Vera GOWLLAND-DEBBAS 1
MULTILATERAL TREATIES AS A SOURCE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW&Chair: Larry FOHNSON 13
Keynote Address - Responding to New Needs through Codification and Progressive Development&Alain PELLET 13
Some Reflections on the Relationship of Treaties and Soft Law&Alan BOYLE 25
PARTICIPATION IN MULTILATERAL TREATY-MAKING BY NON-STATE ENTITIES&Chair: Andrew CLAPHAM 41
Participation of Non-Governmental Entities in Treaty-Making:The Case of Conventional Weapons&Louise DOSWALD-BECK 41
Multinational Enterprises and Treaty-Making - A Contribution to the Discussion on Non-State Actors and the “Subjects” of International Law&Peter MALANCZUK 45
LUNCHEON ADDRESS&Chair: Robert ROSENSTOCK 75
The International Treaty-Making Process: Paradise Lost,or Humpty Dumpty?&Charles N.BROWER 75
MULTILATERAL TREATIES AND THE COLLECTIVE INTEREST&Chair: Stephen McCAFFREY 83
How Distinctive are Treaties Representing Collective Interest? The Case of Human Rights Treaties&Bruno SIMMA 83
Multilateral Environmental Treaty-Making&Catherine REDGWVELL 89
IMPLEMENTING MULTILATERAL TREATIES AT THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS&Chair: Ernst-Ulrich PETERSMANN 111
Implementing Treaties in Domestic Law: from “Pacta Sunt Servanda” to “Anything Goes”?&Walter KALIN 111
The ILO’s Standard-Setting Action: International Legislation or Treaty Law?&Francis MAUPAIN 129
CONCLUDING REMARKS&Georges ABI-SAAB 137
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 143