It is often said that the Vienna Convention on theLawof Treaties relegated drafting history to a subsidiary role in treaty interpretation. This article relies on a close reading of the Convention’s own drafting history to challenge that view.
Under the settlement actually negotiated by the drafters, reference to travaux pre´paratoires was meant to be a regular, central, and indeed indispensable component of the interpretive process.
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