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2012

Procedural Aspects of Shared Responsibility in the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Lorand Bartels

An international actor is responsible under international law when an act attributable to it causes a breach of an obligation by which it is bound. Sometimes third party actors can share elements of that responsibility. At the one end of … Read more

2012

Shared Responsibility in the International Court of Justice

Martins Paparinskis

In recent years, the International Court of Justice has been increasingly asked to adjudicate upon claims of State responsibility that raise or at least touch upon the possibility of international responsibility of multiple entities. In different substantive contexts, these cases … Read more

2012

Shared Responsibility for the Prevention of Genocide?

Mindia Vashakmadze

The legal obligations to prevent genocide are well-established in international law. However, their allocation between different actors is still under discussion. The law does not give satisfactory answers in terms of the role of multiple actors and their corresponding responsibilities … Read more

2012

The Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations: Magnifying the Fissures in the Law of International Responsibility

Jean d’Aspremont

It is against the backdrop of the conceptual impairment inherited from the Articles on State Responsibility (hereafter ASR) that this note, rather than zeroing in on what could have been better devised at the micro-level of the Articles on the … Read more

2012

The Use of Analogies in Drafting the Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations – An Appraisal of the ‘Copy-Paste Approach’ –

Christiane Ahlborn

In view of the adoption and future reception of the Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations (ARIO) on second reading, this contribution seeks to offer some reflections on the ‘copy-paste narrative’ that has characterized the process of drafting the … Read more

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