Resumen de The Travaux of Travaux: Is the Vienna Convention Hostile to Drafting History?

Julian Davis Mortenson

• 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.