Complicity and the Law of State Responsibility

A timely analysis of State complicity in international law, which takes an innovative rule-of-law perspective.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Complicity between bilateralism and community interest; 3. Complicity and the international rule of law; 4. Complicity in customary international law; 5. The concept of complicity in Article 16 ASR; 6. The consequences of complicity; 7. Complicity and aggravated responsibility; 8. A network of rules on complicity; 9. Concluding observations.

About the author

Helmut Philipp Aust is a Senior Research Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Summary

This systematic analysis of the international rules on complicit States in controversial cases such as the 2003 Iraq war or the detention of terrorist suspects combines analysis of international practice with a rule of law approach and demonstrates that international law provides for rules on State complicity.

Product details

• Authors: Helmut Philipp Aust, Helmut Philipp (Senior Research Fellow Aust, Aust Helmut Philipp
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.2013
• EAN: 9781107682153
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68215-3
• No. of pages: 522
• Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law; Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, LAW / International, Public International Law, Responsibility of states & other entities