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Art 8 deals with the legal consequences of an act performed by an unauthorized person related to the conclusion of a treaty and the options for the State concerned. It thereby complements the previous article on full powers and aims to bring about legal security in such situations.
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Sinclair 31.
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H Blix Treaty-Making Power (1960) 12.
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Final Draft, Commentary to Art 7, 211 para 2.
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Waldock II 46.
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[1963-II] YbILC 189–217.
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Final Draft, Draft Art 7, 193.
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UNCLOT I 79 para 34.
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N Angelet/T Leidgens in Corten/Klein Art 8 MN 6–7; Villiger Art 8 MN 9.
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Elias 21.
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Final Draft, Commentary to Art 8, 194 para 2. For more background on this incident, see Blix (n 1) 76–77.
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ICJ Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v Yugoslavia) (Preliminary Objections) (dissenting opinion Kreća) [1996] ICJ Rep 658, paras 38–39.
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ICJ Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v Yugoslavia) (Preliminary Objections) [1996] ICJ Rep 595, para 44.
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N Angelet/T Leidgens in Corten/Klein Art 8 MN 7.
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Final Draft, Commentary to Art 8, 194 para 1.
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Ibid para 3.
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N Angelet/T Leidgens in Corten/Klein Art 8 MN 11.
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For a different view, see N Angelet/T Leidgens in Corten/Klein Art 8 MN 6, 13–14, who argue that Art 8 only allows for retroactive confirmation, whereas a confirmation ex nunc would have to be based on customary law.
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Final Draft, Commentary to Art 8, 194 para 3; GE do Nascimento e Silva Full Powers (1995) 2 EPIL 494, 496.
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The treaty is reproduced in (1941) 35 AJIL Supp 129 and (1942) 11 ZaöRV 107–112.
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For more details, see H Briggs The Validity of the Greenland Agreement (1941) 35 AJIL 508, and WG Grewe Der Grönland-‘Vertrag’ von Washington (1941) 8 Monatshefte für auswärtige Politik 431.
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Blix (n 1) 60.
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Aust 83; Blix (n 1) 9.
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Blix (n 1) 9.
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GE do Nascimento e Silva Full Powers (1995) 2 EPIL 494–497.
H Blix Treaty-Making Power (1960).
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Dörr, O., Schmalenbach, K. (2012). Article 8. Subsequent confirmation of an act performed without authorization. In: Dörr, O., Schmalenbach, K. (eds) Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19291-3_10
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