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FACULTY OF LAW
University of Lund
Niina Anderson
Reservations and Objections
to Multilateral Treaties on
Human Rights
Master’s thesis
20 points
Supervisor:
Gregor Noll
Field of study:
Public International Law/Human Rights Law

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Spring 2001

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Contents
SUMMARY
2
PREFACE
2
ABBREVIATIONS
2
1.
INTRODUCTION
2
1.1 The Purpose of the Thesis, its ”Key Questions” and Delimitations
2
1.2 Method and Material
2
1.3 The State of the Debate
2
1.4 Disposition of the Thesis
2
2.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
2
2.1 Practice Prior to the Vienna Convention
2
2.2 The Genocide Convention Case
2
3.
THE VIENNA CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF TREATIES
2
3.1 Reservations
2
3.1.1 The Right to Formulate Reservations and “the Object and Purpose rule”, article
19 VCLT
2
3.1.2 Opposability of the Reservation, article 20 VCLT
2
3.1.3 The Legal Effect of Reservations, article 21 VCLT
2
3.1.4 Withdrawal of Reservations and Objections, article 22 VCLT
2
3.1.5 The Vienna Convention, or the Reservations Regime as International Customary
Law
2
3.1.7 Formalities, article 23 VCLT
2
3.2 Objections
2
3.2.1 Reactions on Reservations, article 20 VCLT
2
3.2.2 The Time Factor and the Legal Effect of the Objection, articles 20 and 21 VCLT 2