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’…

The International Law Commission’s (ILC or Commission) decision, 20 years ago, to suggest the General Assembly (UNGA) to simply “take note” of the draft articles on State Responsibility,…

In 1995, the English version of the Commentary on the UN Charter I had organized and edited at the initiative and with the support of the German Foreign…

The Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (Articles), developed by the International Law Commission (ILC), turn 20 this year. On 9 August 2001 –…

Is there an exception to the principle of full reparation in international law of State responsibility for cases where full compensation is ‘crippling’ for the responsible State or…