AGLC4 Rule 14.1: Supranational Materials: Constitutive Documents
Founding treaties and documents of supranational organisations, including those that create their courts and other bodies, are cited as treaties under chapter 8. The constitutive treaties of the European Union are the exception and follow rule 14.2.2.
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Formatting
- Chapter 8 form: italic title, comma, opened for signature (roman, lower case) and the date, comma, the treaty series citation, then the entry into force in round brackets.
- Where there is no treaty series citation, the signature date is followed directly by the entry into force brackets with no comma.
- Where there is no signature date either, the italic title is followed directly by the entry into force brackets.
- Dates are day, month in full, year.
Examples
Quoted from the Guide, page 193- 1Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, opened for signature 20 November 2007, 2624 UNTS 223 (entered into force 15 December 2008).
- 2Charter of the Organization of American States, opened for signature 30 April 1948, 119 UNTS 3 (entered into force 13 December 1951).
- 3Charter of the Organization of African Unity, opened for signature 25 May 1963, 479 UNTS 39 (entered into force 13 September 1963).
- 4Constitutive Act of the African Union, opened for signature 11 July 2000 (entered into force 26 May 2001).
- 5Statute of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (entered into force 1 January 1980).
See also
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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.