Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword. Introductory Remarks -- Chair: V. Gowlland-Debbas Multilateral Treaties as a Source of International Law -- L. Johnson . Keynote Address - Responding to New Needs through Codification and Progressive Development -- A. Pellet . Some Reflections on the Relationship of Treaties and Soft Law -- A. Boyle . Participation in Multilateral Treaty-Making by Non-State Entities -- Chair: A. Clapham . Participation of Non-Governmental Entities in Treaty-Making: The Case of Conventional Weapons -- L. Doswald-Beck . Multionational Enterprises and Treaty-Making - A Contribution to the Discussion on Non-State Actors and the `Subjects' of International Law -- P. Malanczuk . Luncheon Address -- Chair: R. Rosenstock. The International Treaty-Making Process: Paradise Lost, or Humpty Dumpty? C.N. Brower . Multilateral Treaties and the Collective Interest -- Chair: S. McCaffrey . How Distinctive are Treaties Representing Collective Interest? The Case of Human Rights Treaties -- B. Simma . Multilateral Environmental Treaty-Making -- C. Redgwell . Implementing Multilateral Treaties at the Domestic and International Levels -- Chair: E.-U. Petersmann . Implementing Treaties in Domestic Law: from `Pacta Sunt Servanda' to `Anything Goes'? W. Kälin . The ILO's Standard-Setting Action: International Legislation or Treaty Law? F. Maupain. Concluding Remarks -- G. Abi-Saab . List of Participants.

This book focuses on the impact of social change on the rules relating to the forms and procedures of treaty-making, but inevitably also comes to focus on the content of the norms themselves, where, as in human rights and the environment, they have had an impact on the form and procedure of the treaty. It is of great value to all practitioners, academics, and policy-makers involved with, or interested in, the treaty-making process.

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