Distribution of Responsibilities in International Law

Exploring theoretical foundations for the distribution of shared responsibility, this book provides a basis for the development of international law.

List of contents

Editors' preface; 1. Introduction: mapping the normative framework for the distribution of shared responsibility André Nollkaemper and Dov Jacobs; 2. Shared responsibility in international law: a normative-philosophical analysis Roland Pierik; 3. Shared political responsibility Anthony F. Lang, Jr; 4. Ex ante and ex post allocation of international legal responsibility Joel P. Trachtman; 5. Incentives, compensation, and irreparable harm Lewis A. Kornhauser; 6. Shared responsibility in international law: a political economy analysis Anne van Aaken; 7. Public power and preventive responsibility: attributing the wrongs of international joint ventures Tom Dannenbaum; 8. 'Coalitions of the willing' and the shared responsibility to protect Toni Erskine; 9. Distributing the responsibility to protect Monica Hakimi; 10. The problem of shared irresponsibility in international climate law Daniel H. Cole; 11. Transboundary damage in climate change: criteria for allocating responsibility Henry Shue; 12. Shared responsibility for climate change: from guilt to taxes Christopher L. Kutz; 13. How to keep promises: making sense of the duty among multiple states to fulfil socio-economic rights in the world Margot E. Salomon; 14. Pirate 'gaolbalisation': dividing responsibility among states, companies, and criminals Eugene Kontorovich; 15. The global financial crisis and collective moral responsibility Seumas Miller.

About the author

André Nollkaemper is Professor of Public International Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam's Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), and director of the SHARES research project.Dov Jacobs is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University.

Summary

International law provides only limited guidance for distributing responsibility among multiple wrongdoing actors. Drawing on disciplines such as political theory, moral philosophy, and economics, this book explores the possible grounds for distribution of responsibility and provides a basis for the further development and reform of international law.

Product details

• Authors: Andre Nollkaemper, André Nollkaemper, Andre Jacobs Nollkaemper
• Assisted by: Dov Jacobs (Editor), Jacobs Dov (Editor), Andre Nollkaemper (Editor), André Nollkaemper (Editor), Jessica N. M. Schechinger (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107107083
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10708-3
• No. of pages: 474
• Series: Shared Responsibility in Inter; Shared Responsibility in International Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Ethics & moral philosophy, Political Economy, Ethics and moral philosophy, International institutions, International Organisations & Institutions