Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
1 See Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its thirty-ninth session, 42 UN GAOR Supp. (No. 10), UN Doc. A/42/10 (1987) [hereinafter Report].
2 Id. at 22, 24, 25, 28 and 29–30.
3 Id. at 24. See also the Commission’s 1950 report, [1950] 2 Y.B. Int’l L. Comm’n 364, 374, UN Doc. A/CN.4/SER.A/1950/Add.1.
4 Report, supra note 1, at 54, 56, 57 and 66.
5 Id. at 69–70 and 82.
6 While the Commission included the topic in its program of work in 1978, the first report of the original special rapporteur, Professor Robert Q. Quentin-Baxter, was not discussed until 1980.
7 Done Mar. 14, 1975, UN Doc. A/CONF.67/16 (1975), reprinted in 1975 UN Jurid. Y.B. 87, UN Sales No. E.77.V.3.