Multilateral Treaty-Making: The Current Status of Challenges to and Reforms Needed in the International Legislative Process (Nijhoff Law Specials, 47)

This book focuses on the impact of social change on the rules relating to the forms and procedures of treaty-making, but inevitably also comes to focus on the content of the norms themselves, where, as in human rights and the environment, they have had an impact on the form and procedure of the treaty. It is of great value to all practitioners, academics, and policy-makers involved with, or interested in, the treaty-making process.

'Gowlland-Debbas' collection of scholarly essays is very useful in understanding the new international social reality as far as treaty-making is concerned and seeks ways for the law to adapt to it. It is an informative, enriching and at times thought-provoking book, which certainly achieves its stated aim of contributing to the debate on the reforms needed in the international legislative process.'
Luisa Vierucci, European Journal of International Law, Volume 13.