Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
1 S. Rosenne, The Law of Treaties. A Guide to the Legislative History of the Vienna Convention (1970). See review article by Herbert W. Briggs, 65 AJIL 705– 12 (1971).
2 As of December 31, 1977, 31 states had accepted the Convention as binding by ratification or accession. See Rosenne, note 1 supra, at p. 5. Briggs notes that the number has risen to 33. See United States Ratification of the Vienna Convention, 73 AJIL 470–73 (1979).
3 To the cases may be added the 1978 Aegean Continental Shelf case before the ICJ, the Beagle Channel arbitration of 1977, and the Franco-British Delimitation of the Continental Shelf arbitration of 1977. See Briggs, note 2 supra, at 471–72.