Includes papers presented as a "conference that was initially meant to be held in Paris ... and eventually was turned, like so many others around that time, into an online webinar in June 2021"--ECIP preface. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
From "respondere" to "responsibility : a Roman lawyer's gloss on the international law of state responsibility / Dario Mantovani -- Change in the law of International responsibility / Andre Nollkaemper -- State responsibility : an outsider's view / Antony Duff -- Responsibility of states for wrongdoing : who is to decide? / Alon Harel and Julian Kulaga -- Responsibility as opportunism : the responsibility of international organizations / Jan Klabbers -- Responsibility of members of an international organization : collective and/or individual? / Paolo Palchetti -- International responsibility for global environment harm : collective and individual / Liam Murphy -- Justifying liability for state remedial duties / Sandy Steel -- Responsibility or liability : is it really that simple? / Pierre d'Argent -- Causation, fault, and function in the rules of attribution / Sean Fleming -- Time travel in the law of international responsibility / Jean d'Aspremon -- The responsibility of public authorities in China / Frederic Constant -- Liability of public institutions in Middle Eastern Law / Chibli Malla -- The responsibility of public institutions in Africa : a legal framework in the making / Ousmane Oumarou Sidibe -- State responsibility from a Central European perspective / Krzysztof Wojtycze -- 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.
Summary:
"International responsibility law today is in great need of theorizing, or, at least, that is the present volume's argument. This introduction sets the stage for that argument. It unfolds in four steps: first, it clarifies the reasons that led to putting this collection of essays together and explains what it hopes to achieve; second, it introduces the main theoretical challenges addressed in the volume; third, it provides some information about how the book is organized; and, finally, it sketches out the content of its successive chapters and their articulation"-- Provided by publisher.
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