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international law
nature of 2–5
as real law 3–4
see also individual topics
International Law Commission 210
international lawyers 4–5
international organisations 196–7
capacity to make treaties 58
dispute settlement 203–4
United Nations 203–4
immunities and privileges 199–202
legal personality 198–9
legally binding measures 67
liability 202
membership and representation 197–8
reservations to treaties forming 71
responsibility of 428–9
as subjects of international law 14
succession of states and 403–5
International Sea-Bed Authority 311–12
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) 196, 371
international trade
trade in hazardous wastes 343
UN embargoes 218
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea 323
International Whaling Commission (IWC) 196, 322, 333–4
INTERPOL 263
interpretation of treaties 88–97
context 90–1
implied terms 95–6
interpretive declarations 68
multiple languages 96–7
preparatory work (travaux préparatoires) 94–5
relevant rules of international law 93
special meaning 93
subsequent agreements and practice 91–3
supplementary means of interpretation 93–5
intertemporal rule 35, 414
invalidity of treaties 107–9
investment see bilateral investment treaties
Iran 47
US hostages 414
Iran–US Claims Tribunal 445
Iraq 396
annexation of Kuwait (1990) 37, 214, 215, 217