Time is an important element in the process of reservations to treaties and, consequently, in the legal regime established by the Vienna Conventions for reservations and reactions thereto. The very definition of reservations, embodied in article 2(1)(d) of the 1969 and 1986 … [Read more...]

The purpose of this article is to revisit the protracted saga of the International Law Commission Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties, as the Special Rapporteur has lived it for nearly 18 years and 16 reports. In the first part, the article recounts the elaboration … [Read more...]

This Article argues that the European Union has used its powers to criminalize not only to address practical needs, but also to reaffirm its core values and strengthen its political identity. An example of this phenomenon is the decision to harmonize definitions of racist and … [Read more...]

Under what conditions may public-private partnerships (PPPs or P3s) involved in multilateral development policy advance public interest goals in global intellectual property (IP)? This paper attempts to assess how non-profit partners within certain development policy PPPs … [Read more...]

The process of EU enlargement towards the East forged the need of a new common ground between the Eastern and Western European perspectives and traditions of international law to create a European vision. Our paper explains this should not be addressed as a mere synthesis between … [Read more...]