Self-Executing Treaty

A compact between two nations that is effective immediately without the need for ancillary legislation.

A treaty is ordinarily considered self-executing if it provides adequate rules by which given rights may be enjoyed or imposed duties may be enforced. Conversely it is generally not self-executing when it merely indicates principles without providing rules giving them the force of law.

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1978) ("[T]he expenditure of funds by the United States cannot be accomplished by self-executing treaty; implementing legislation appropriating such funds is indispensable."); Turner v.

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Just as a statute pre-empts common law when Congress speaks directly to the question, a self-executing treaty like the Convention pre-empts common law if the treaty speaks directly to the question.

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A self-executing treaty has "automatic domestic effect as federal law." (32) By contrast, a non-self-executing treaty has what sounds like a distinctly lesser status: it is not "by itself' enforceable in the courts.

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(54) Generally, a ratified self-executing treaty is

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(55) However, neither the Paris Convention nor the TRIPS Agreement is a self-executing treaty, and Congress has not amended the Lanham Trademark Act to add express language in order to protect well-known trademarks without prior trademark use in commerce in the United States.

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at 527 ("[G]iving domestic effect to an international treaty obligation under the Constitution--for making law--requires joint action by the Executive and Legislative Branches: The Senate can ratify a self-executing treaty 'ma[de]' by the Executive, or, if the ratified treaty is not self-executing, Congress can enact implementing legislation approved by the President.").

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A self-executing treaty is ratified with the understanding that the treaty will have domestic force, namely, by including language "plainly providing for domestic enforceability." Id.

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In order to answer this question, it must first be determined whether the VCCR is a self-executing treaty. (85) Only then could the treaty give rise to a cause of action to enforce any rights that may be granted under that treaty.

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Other constitutions statue the lex posterior rule as in the United States ("later in time") and the others consecrated the supremacy of the self-executing treaty upon the national law.

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