Jill Barrett is Visiting Reader in the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London and Associate Member, 6 Pump Court Chambers. She also works independently as an international law consultant and advises UK parliamentary committee inquiries on the role of Parliament in scrutinising treaties. Previously, she was the Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and, before that, she was Legal Counsellor at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Throughout her twenty-year FCO career she negotiated, drafted and advised on numerous treaties and represented the UK at the United Nations and international conferences. She led the UK Government's work on creating a statutory regime on ratification of treaties in the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010. She supervised the FCO Treaty Section and developed new ways of delivering treaty services to the UK Government and the public.
1. Introduction to good treaty practice
2. Organising treaty work in governments and international organisations
3. Treaties and other kinds of international instruments
4. Managing and using treaty collections
5. Making a new treaty (negotiation, drafting, production)
6. Preparing to become party to a treaty
7. Becoming party to a treaty - consent to be bound and entry into force
8. Continuing engagement with the treaty throughout its life
9. Ending treaty relations
10. Future of treaty practice.
