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Contributions on Comparative Public Law and International Law

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Georg Nolte (ed.)

Peace through International Law

The Role of the International Law Commission. A Colloquium at the Occassion of its Sixtieth Anniversary


Contents:
Introduction.
State Responsibility and Peace: The Normative Environment for Peace - On the Contribution of the ILC's Articles on State Responsibility. - Comment: State Responsibility and Peace. - Comment: The Impact of Security Council Resolutions on State Responsibility. - Comment: State Responsibility and Peace.
The Law of Treaties and Peace: The Merits of Reasonable Flexibility: The Contribution of the Law of Treaties to Peace. - Comment: The Contribution of the Law of Treaties to Peace. - Comment: The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and its Contribution to Peace. - Comment: The Contributions of the Law of Treaties to Peace.
International Law of Shared Natural Resources and Peace: The Benefits of Positivism: The ILC's Contribution to the Peaceful Sharing of Transboundary Groundwater. - Comment: International Law of Shared Natural Resources and Peace. - Comment: Trends in the Law Applicable to Freshwaters. - Comment: The ILC's Contribution to the Peaceful Sharing of Transboundary Groundwater.
Concluding Discussion: The ILC and Informalization. - The Role of the ILC's Work in Promoting World Peace and Security - Definition and Evaluation. - Peace through Law: The Role of the ILC.



While peace is the overarching goal of the United Nations, questions of war and peace are not always directly considered in the day-to-day work of the International Law Commission (ILC). The sixtieth anniversary of the ILC provides an occasion to reflect on the role and the responsibility, but also on the limits, of the ILC in the area of peace and security.

Three areas of the Commission's work will be assessed: the law of State responsibility and the law of treaties as "classics" among the topics treated by the ILC. In addition, the topic of shared natural resources is likely to have an increasing importance for peace and security in the future.

2009. IX, 195 p.
ISBN 978-3-642-03379-7
Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg