Law as an Implicit Third Party in International Negotiation

Abstract

AbstractThis essay seeks to clarify the important role that law plays in all types of international negotiation. Law is examined as part of the legal referential frame within negotiation, when dealing with substantive matters and procedural questions, as a conditioner of negotiator behavior, in the implementation of the resulting agreement, in the obligations to negotiate by the parties, and as part of the embryonic element of a new autonomous branch of international negotiation law.