General international law before human rights courts
Subtitle: assessing the specialty claims of international human rights law
By: Frédéric Vanneste.
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Antwerp; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 625
ISBN-13: 9789050959582
Subjects: Human rights; Treaties -- Interpretation and construction; International courts
Notes: Revised version of author's Ph.D. thesis, Catholic University of Leuven.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 597-621) and index.
Table of contents: title: Background : fragmentation of international law and "human rightism"; title: Research assumption; title: Methodological approach; title: Recurrent references to the concept of law-making treaties (with an independent monitoring organ); title: Assessing the "special" approach towards reservations (articles 19-23 VCLT); title: Special application of human rights treaties (articles 24-30 VCLT)?; title: Special approach towards intepretation of human rights treaties (31-33 VCLT)?; title: Special significance for third parties (articles 34-38 VLCT and 53)?; title: Special status for the norms enshrined in the ECHR or the ACHR (articles 30, 34-42, 53, 59 and 64 VCLT)?; title: Withdrawl from human rights treaties (article 56 VCLT); title: Specialty claim for various topics of general international law treated by human rights courts; title: Human rightism or development; title: Harmony, not autonomy; title: "Specialty" claims of human rights law are seldom conclusive to depart from general international law; title: Special status of human rights norms need to be clarified by general international law; title: International human rights law does not threaten the unity of general international law.