Status of Treaties in Domestic Legal Systems
A Policy Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9560804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John H Jackson (0000-0003-0225-8825, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 310-340 |
| Publication date | 1992-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of International Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9300 • E-ISSN: 2161-7953 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2203236 |
| OpenAlex | W1981694789 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
The degree to which an international treaty is “directly applied” or “self-executing” in a national (municipal) legal system, i.e., to what extent the treaty norms are treated directly as norms of domestic law (“statutelike law”) without a further “act of transformation,” has been debated in an extensive literature for more than a century. This subject is now receiving increased recognition as part of a broader trend acknowledging that understanding an international legal system necessitates understanding the relationship of national legal and political systems to that international system. In connection with treaties, the basic concepts of “monism” and “dualism” have long been used to explain some of the relationships of treaty law to domestic law
Business · Economics · International trade · Law and economics · Political science · EU Law and Policy Analysis · International Arbitration and Investment Law · International Law and Aviation
Human Rights Treaties, Invalid Reservations, and State Consent
Sovereignty-Modern
Revitalizing The U.S. Compliance Power
Securing Human Rights in the Face of International Integration
International Law in National Legal Systems
Influencing Enforcement
Trading Gains for Control
The Politics of Dispute Settlement Design
Loosening the Ties that Bind
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2023 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |