Environment, Risk and Liability in International Law

Julio Barboza is a career ambassador who devoted 40 years to international law—18 of them at the International Law Commission. He was also a judge of the UN Administrative Tribunal and a professor at several Argentine universities who taught courses at the Hague Academy of International Law.

• ContentsChapter I : Introduction.Chapter II: Risk and Harm, Prevention and LiabilityChapter III: Responsibility and Liability in International LawChapter IV: Conventional LawChapter V: Other Aspects of International PracticeChapter VI: The Development of the Subject at the International Law Chapter VII: The Development in the International Law Commission: Consideration of the Topic since 1997Chapter VIII: ConclusionsAnnex I: Schematic OutlineAnnex II: Text of the Draft Articles Provisionally Adopted by the Commission Before 1996Annex III: Articles on Liability Proposed in the Tenth Report of the Special Raporteur, Mr. Julio BarbozaAnnex IV: Draft Articles Proposed by the 1996 Working GroupAnnex V: Prevention of Transboundary Harm from Hazardous Activities (2001 Articles)Annex VI: Draft Principles on the Allocation of Loss in the Case of Transboundary Harm Arising Out of Hazardous Activities

"It is a very nice volume for any library to have on its shelves and for any scholar, practitioner or policymaker interested in this topic, which one can finish reading over a weekend."-Sienho Yee, Wuhan University Institute of International Law