Distribution of Responsibilities in International Law

André Nollkaemper is Professor of Public International Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam's Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), and director of the SHARES research project. Dov Jacobs is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University.

• Editors' preface; 1. Introduction: mapping the normative framework for the distribution of shared responsibility André Nollkaemper and Dov Jacobs; 2. Shared responsibility in international law: a normative-philosophical analysis Roland Pierik; 3. Shared political responsibility Anthony F. Lang, Jr; 4. Ex ante and ex post allocation of international legal responsibility Joel P. Trachtman; 5. Incentives, compensation, and irreparable harm Lewis A. Kornhauser; 6. Shared responsibility in international law: a political economy analysis Anne van Aaken; 7. Public power and preventive responsibility: attributing the wrongs of international joint ventures Tom Dannenbaum; 8. 'Coalitions of the willing' and the shared responsibility to protect Toni Erskine; 9. Distributing the responsibility to protect Monica Hakimi; 10. The problem of shared irresponsibility in international climate law Daniel H. Cole; 11. Transboundary damage in climate change: criteria for allocating responsibility Henry Shue; 12. Shared responsibility for climate change: from guilt to taxes Christopher L. Kutz; 13. How to keep promises: making sense of the duty among multiple states to fulfil socio-economic rights in the world Margot E. Salomon; 14. Pirate 'gaolbalisation': dividing responsibility among states, companies, and criminals Eugene Kontorovich; 15. The global financial crisis and collective moral responsibility Seumas Miller.

'… an impressive volume dealing with situations where multiple states or international legal entities may share legal responsibility for a given situation.' Eugene Kontorovich, The Washington Post