Theories of International Responsibility Law

Author: Samantha Besson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009208536
Published In: September 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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There is no issue more central to a legal order than responsibility, and yet the dearth of contemporary theorizing on international responsibility law is worrying for the state of international law. The volume brings philosophers of the law of responsibility into dialogue with international responsibility law specialists. Its tripartite structure corresponds to the three main theoretical challenges in the contemporary practice of international responsibility law: the public and private nature of the international responsibility of public institutions; its collective and individual dimensions; and the place of fault therein. In each part, two international lawyers and two philosophers of responsibility law address the most pressing questions in the theory of international responsibility law. The volume closes with a comparative 'world tour' of the responsibility of public institutions in four different legal cultures and regions, identifying stepping-stones and stumbling blocks on the path towards a common law of international responsibility.

Theorizing international responsibility law, an introduction

Samantha Besson

Part I. International Responsibility of Public Institutions: Public and/or Private?:

1. From 'respondere' to 'responsibility': A Roman lawyer's gloss on the international law of state responsibility

Dario Mantovani

2. Change in the law of international responsibility

André Nollkaemper

3. State responsibility: an outsider's view

R.A. Duff

4. Responsibility of states for wrongdoing: who is to decide?

Alon Harel and Julian Kulaga

Part II. International Responsibility of Public Institutions: Collective and/or Individual?: