State Silence Across International Law

Danae Azaria Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL), and the Principal Investigator of the Starting Grant (State Silence) of the European Research Council. She is a laureate of the Guggenheim Prize in Public International Law for her monograph, Treaties on Transit of Energy via Pipelines and Countermeasures (OUP, 2015) and has published widely in international law. She holds and has held various prestigious editorial and advisory positions and visiting professorships. She is listed as an arbitrator in relation to various treaties, and she regularly advises governments and international organizations on issues of public international law.

• Part 1. General 1: Danae Azaria: Introduction 2: Omri Sender and Michael Wood: State Silence and the Work of the International Law Commission Part 2. Peace and Security 3: Danae Azaria: State Silence and the Law on the Use of Force 4: Duncan B. Hollis and Barrie Sander: State Silence and the International Law of Cyberspace, 5: Sandesh Sivakumaran: State Silence and the Law of Armed Conflict 6: Talita Dias: State Silence and International Criminal Law Part 3. International Human Rights Law 7: Andreas Zimmermann and Nils-Hendrik Grohmann: State Silence and the Framework of the ICCPR 8: Olivia Coral Daniels and Laurence R. Helfer: State Silence and the European Human Rights System Part 4. International Economic Law 9: Gabrielle Marceau and Rebecca Walker: WTO Members' Silence and WTO Decision-Making 10: Robert Howse: WTO Members' Silence and WTO Law 11: August Reinisch and Johannes Tropper: State Silence and International Investment Law Part 5. International Law of Spaces and the Environment 12: Giovanni Distefano and Aymeric Hêche: State Silence and Territorial Title and Boundaries 13: Jean-Marc Thouvenin: State Silence and the Law of the Sea 14: Lorenzo Gasbarri: State Silence and International Space Law 15: Malgosia Fitzmaurice: State Silence and International Environmental Law Part 6. Conclusion 16: Danae Azaria: Conclusion

Masterfully conducted and put together by Danae Azaria, this outstanding collective research on the legal meaning of State silence across various fields of international law will be much talked about. While silence is always deeply contextual, giving it legal significance—or not—ultimately rests on commonsensical considerations that betray a certain understanding of social relations. Silence is thus not only crucial for what it means, but most importantly for what allows us to make it meaningful. In other words, State silence speaks volumes about the very possibility of law in the international community.