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 positions have at times been expressed. At one end of the spectrum are assertions of the ‘irrelevance’ of ARSIWA to human rights treaties (Evans 2004), or the latter being…

During the past week, the Norwegian Supreme Court has been hearing the People v Arctic Oil case, a rights-based challenge to the Norwegian State’s grant of petroleum exploration licenses. The case raises myriad questions of significance regarding States’ human rights obligations in the context of climate change. Here, we consider two of them: the geographic scope…