Interpreting the Environmental Protocol — a recipe for international confusion?

Turning international agreement into national law has never been rapid or simple. Each country has its own parliamentary procedures, its own legal system and its own cultural interpretation of what the words in the international agreement actually mean. Last but not least, the importance attached to...

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Published in:Antarctic Science
Main Authors: Walton, David W.H., Thomson, M.R.A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Cambridge University Press 1994
Subjects:
Law
Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517539/
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102094000660
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Summary:Turning international agreement into national law has never been rapid or simple. Each country has its own parliamentary procedures, its own legal system and its own cultural interpretation of what the words in the international agreement actually mean. Last but not least, the importance attached to implementing Treaty law is clearly different between countries, as the amazingly patchy implementation of existing Treaty Recommendations shows.