Day: 29 March 2024


  • Article 68 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Revocation of notifications and instruments provided for in articles 65 and 67 A notification or instrument provided for in article 65 or 67 may be revoked at any time before it takes effect. See also: Article 67 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

  • Article 67 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Instruments for declaring invalid, terminating, withdrawing from or suspending the operation of a treaty 1. The notification provided for under article 65, paragraph 1, must be made in writing. 2. Any act of declaring invalid, terminating, withdrawing from or suspending the operation of a treaty pursuant…

  • Article 66 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Procedures for judicial settlement, arbitration and conciliation If, under paragraph 3 of article 65, no solution has been reached within a period of 12 months following the date on which the objection was raised, the following procedures shall be followed: (a) any one of the parties…

  • Reevaluating Consent: Modern Perspectives on Marital Immunity in Sexual Assault Cases – Johnson Ogundein

    Reevaluating Consent: Modern Perspectives on Marital Immunity in Sexual Assault Cases Ashley had just gone through a gynaecology procedure, and she still experiences discomfort. Her husband Jacob, a conventional believer of, “I own your body as long as you are my wife,” is at the center of a troubling incident that unfolded one night in…

  • Article 65 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Procedure to be followed with respect to invalidity, termination, withdrawal from or suspension of the operation of a treaty 1. A party which, under the provisions of the present Convention, invokes either a defect in its consent to be bound by a treaty or a ground…

  • Article 64 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Emergence of a new peremptory norm of general international law (“jus cogens”) If a new peremptory norm of general international law emerges, any existing treaty which is in conflict with that norm becomes void and terminates. See also: Article 63 Vienna Convention on the Law of…

  • Article 63 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Severance of diplomatic or consular relations The severance of diplomatic or consular relations between parties to a treaty does not affect the legal relations established between them by the treaty except insofar as the existence of diplomatic or consular relations is indispensable for the application of…

  • Article 62 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Fundamental change of circumstances 1. A fundamental change of circumstances which has occurred with regard to those existing at the time of the conclusion of a treaty, and which was not foreseen by the parties, may not be invoked as a ground for terminating or withdrawing…

  • Article 61 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Supervening impossibility of performance 1. A party may invoke the impossibility of performing a treaty as a ground for terminating or withdrawing from it if the impossibility results from the permanent disappearance or destruction of an object indispensable for the execution of the treaty. If the…