Theories of International Responsibility Law

Samantha Besson holds the Chair Droit international des institutions at the Collège de France and is Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She is an associate member of the Institute of International Law and co-chair of the ILA Study Group on the International Law of Regional Organizations.

• Theorizing international responsibility law, an introduction Samantha Besson; Part I. International Responsibility of Public Institutions: Public and/or Private?: 1. From 'respondere' to 'responsibility': A Roman lawyer's gloss on the international law of state responsibility Dario Mantovani; 2. Change in the law of international responsibility André Nollkaemper; 3. State responsibility: an outsider's view R. A. Duff; 4. Responsibility of states for wrongdoing: who is to decide? Alon Harel and Julian Kulaga; Part II. International Responsibility of Public Institutions: Collective and/or Individual?: 5. Responsibility as opportunism: the responsibility of international organizations Jan Klabbers; 6. Responsibility of members of an international organization: collective and/or individual? Paolo Palchetti; 7. International responsibility for global environmental harm: collective and individual Liam Murphy; 8. Justifying liability for state remedial duties Sandy Steel; Part III. International Responsibility of Public Institutions: Fault-Based or Not?; 9. Responsibility or liability: is it really that simple? Pierre d'Argent; 10. Causation, fault, and function in the rules of attribution Sean Fleming; 11. Time travel in the law of international responsibility Jean d'Aspremont; Part IV. Responsibility of Public Institutions: A World Tour: 12. The responsibility of public authorities in China Frédéric Constant; 13. Liability of public institutions in Middle Eastern law Chibli Mallat; 14. The responsibility of public institutions in Africa: a legal framework in the making Ousmane Oumarou Sidibé; 15. State responsibility from a Central European perspective Krzysztof Wojtyczek; 16. Comparative and prospective comments on the 'world tour' of the concept of public responsibility Mireille Delmas-Marty; Conclusion: responsibility at the crossroad between philosophy and law Pierre-Marie Dupuy.