The International Law Commission 1999-2009

Volume IV: Treaties, Final Draft Articles, and Other Materials

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Av Arnold Pronto, Sir Michael Wood, KCMG, QC, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs) Pronto, Arnold (Senior Legal Officer, Secretariat of the International Law Commission, Sir Michael (Member of the International Law Commission; Barrister at 20 Essex Street) Wood, KCMG, QC, WOOD ET AL

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This book continues the three-volume series edited by Sir Arthur Watts and published in 1999 and 2000. It contains the final product of the International Law Commission (ILC)'s work over the decade 1999-2009. The ILC's work is frequently cited by international and national courts, by governments, practitioners, and academic authors. The present volume includes the full text - and commentaries where applicable - of ILC texts adopted during the period under review, on such important topics as State responsibility, diplomatic protection, nationality in relation to the succession of States, unilateral acts of States, the fragmentation of international law, as well as several topics relevant to international environmental law, including prevention of transboundary harm from hazardous activities, international liability in case of loss from transboundary harm arising out of hazardous activities, and the law of transboundary aquifers. It further updates the existing series with the inclusion of a chapter on the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property.Each text is accompanied by an authoritative introduction, a note on the preparatory work, and a carefully selected bibliography.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-12-16
Mått167 x 241 x 54 mm
Vikt1 444 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor890
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199578979

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Arnold Pronto is a Senior Legal Officer in the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. He is a member of the Secretariat of the International Law Commission, as well as that of the Sixth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. His substantive responsibilities have involved a number of treaty negotiations and other law-making activities related to a range of public international law topics undertaken at the United Nations, including: responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts, diplomatic protection, effects of armed conflicts on treaties, the protection of persons in the event of disasters, measures to eliminate international terrorism, the establishment of the International Criminal Court, the elaboration of an international convention to prohibit the reproductive cloning of human beings, and the criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission.Sir Michael Wood, KCMG, QC, is a member of the International Law Commission, and a Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. He is a barrister at 20 Essex Street, London. He was Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 1999 and 2006. He joined the FCO as an Assistant Legal Adviser in 1970, and was a member of the United Kingdom delegation to many international conferences, including most sessions of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.