Dr Vincent-Joël Proulx is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore. He previously served a three-year term as Special Assistant to the President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). His past appointments also included serving as Legal Officer to the Vice-President of the ICJ, Quebec Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Law Clerk at both the ICJ and Court of Appeal for Ontario.

• Introduction ; 1. Crossing the Conceptual Rubicon: Better Understanding Secondary Norms of State Responsibility ; 2. State Responsibility and Global Security in the Light of Unforeseen Transnational Phenomena ; 3. Assessing Existing Institutional Mechanisms in Implementing State Responsibility ; 4. Institutionalizing the Implementation of State Responsibility in Counterterrorism Contexts: The Interplay between the Security Council and International Legal Norms ; 5. Drawing on Self-Contained Regimes: The Connection between Use of Force and State Responsibility ; 6. Please Kill Responsibly: Counteracting Global Security Violations with Force ; Conclusion

Some books deserve to be read and then re-read. Vincent-Joël Proulx's monograph is a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between the law of state responsibility and the institutional framework of the Charter of the United Nations (UN Charter) as it relates to collective security.