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Ways of Taking into Consideration the Object-and-Purpose and the Possible Codification

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This chapter explains the meaning of object-and-purpose provided in VCLT Article 31.1. It also explains that the object-and-purpose can be identified from the preamble and from the text, and can even be inferred from the text. It further discusses the ways of considering the object-and-purpose of the interpreted treaty.

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    Jonas and Saunders (2010), pp. 571–577.

  2. 2.

    Buffard and Zemanek (1998), pp. 318, 325.

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    Id. at pp. 322–325.

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    Appellate Body Report, European Communities—Customs Classification of Frozen Boneless Chicken Cuts, paras. 238–240, WTO Doc. WT/DS269/AB/R, WT/DS286/AB/R, WT/DS269/AB/R/Corr.1, WT/DS286/AB/R/Corr.1 (adopted 27 Sept 2005).

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    Appellate Body Report, United States—Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products, para. 153, WTO Doc. WT/DS58/AB/R (adopted 6 Nov 1998) [hereinafter US—Shrimp Appellate Body Report].

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    The Purposive Approach to Statutory Interpretation. http://www.e-lawresources.co.uk/Purposive-approach.php. Accessed 21 Aug 2017.

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    Statutory Interpretation in the Supreme Court of Canada. http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~resulliv/legdr/siinscc.html. Accessed 21 Aug 2017.

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    US—Shrimp Appellate Body Report, supra note 5, at para. 153.

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Lo, Cf. (2017). Ways of Taking into Consideration the Object-and-Purpose and the Possible Codification. In: Treaty Interpretation Under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6866-9_11

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