15 November 2014

SHARES News Items Overview: 16 October 2014-15 November 2014

This is our News Items Overview of 16 October 2014-15 November 2014, a summary of recent news relating to shared responsibility. (more…)

28 October 2014

Book review: James Crawford, State Responsibility – The General Part (CUP, 2013)

Forthcoming in International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2015)

Jean d’Aspremont^[1]

State responsibility is one of these foundational doctrines that give shape to international law as much as it gives it teeth. State responsibility provides a conceptual framework through which inadmissible behaviours are constructed, captured and acknowledged while also endowing international law with reactionary mechanisms against those behaviours deemed unacceptable. In that sense, state responsibility is both a screen where standards about what is admissible at the international level are projected as much a parapet from which respect of those standards can be defended. Needless to say that such a twofold functional view of state responsibility is all but ontological. It is the result of certain choices made by international lawyers as well as the socio-historical circumstances in which such choices were made. (more…)

15 October 2014

SHARES News Items Overview: 16 September 2014-15 October 2014

This is our News Items Overview of 16 September 2014-15 October 2014, a summary of recent news relating to shared responsibility. (more…)

6 October 2014

Global health issues and shared state responsibility? The case of Ebola

The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is illustrative of a global health issue which requires collective global action. The rapid spread of the virus is alarming health experts. At the time of writing, the number of reported deaths has reached more than 3,338, and the virus could spread even further across borders. States that are most affected are Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, but Ebola cases have also been reported in Nigeria, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Calls for concerted action and international assistance (more…)

15 September 2014

SHARES News Items Overview: 16 August 2014-15 September 2014

This is our News Items Overview of 16 August 2014-15 September 2014, a summary of recent news relating to shared responsibility. (more…)