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The article deals with the interpretation of tax treaties under international law.
Those who invoke international law must themselves submit to it.
In international law, the doctrine of subjects (or legal persons) determines who may bear rights and obligations.
If applied generally, this approach might have the result that conventions are merely placeholders for nascent customary international law.
Other materials consulted include scholarship on political participation and international law dealing with the right to political participation, minorities, indigenous peoples and human rights.
Both majority and minority groups want much more than is, or could reasonably be, guaranteed in international law.
In a constructivist sense, the meaning of what the convention represents can be more powerful than what it actually guarantees under international law.
Soft law instruments and norms are thus understood as non-binding in international law but binding in some other manner, for instance, politically.
The downplaying of factors that international law has taken into account leads to endorsement of potentially very disruptive proposals.
But more than this, international law is presented as dynamic and responsive; capable of leaps of imagination.
