Twenty years ago, to this day, the ILC’s efforts at clarifying the rules of State responsibility came to an end. On 9 August 2001, the ILC finalised its…

This post explores some aspects of the ILC’s Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (‘ARSIWA’) as they concern the global environmental crisis. The understanding…

In this short post, I consider the unique application of the International Law Commission’s Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ARSIWA) to the…

In modern international law, the relationship between state responsibility and the protection of foreigners and their property is one of cross-fertilization and even common origin. When in 1924…

International humanitarian law is one of the oldest areas of international law. As such, it was unsurprisingly a key source for the International Law Commission in its work…

How should we consider the relationship between the Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ARSIWA) and human rights practice over the past 20 years? Provocative…

The twenty-year old Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ARSIWA) are considered one of the cornerstones of international law and they are widely…

One of the foundations of modern international law is the separation of an international realm in which state public activity is regulated from the realm of commercial markets…

The ultimate test to assess any new development of international law is simple: has it made the world a better place? In 2001, the invisible college of international…

The year after the Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ARSIWA) were completed, David Caron wrote an insightful piece decrying the ‘paradoxical relationship’…