The Yale Law Journal

Mitu Gulati

Article

Withdrawing from International Custom

Curtis A. Bradley & Mitu Gulati

120 Yale L.J. 202 (2010). 

Treaties are negotiated, usually written down, and often subject to cumbersome domestic ratification processes. Nonetheless, nations often have the right to withdraw unilaterally from them. By contrast, the conventional wisdom is that nations never have the legal right to…