Distribution of Responsibilities in International Law ( Shared Responsibility in International Law )

Publication series :Shared Responsibility in International Law

Author: André Nollkaemper; Dov Jacobs; Jessica N. M. Schechinger  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2015

E-ISBN: 9781316405383

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107107083

Subject: D99 international law

Keyword: 国际法

Language: ENG

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Distribution of Responsibilities in International Law

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This is the second book in the series Shared Responsibility in International Law, which examines the problem of distribution of responsibilities among multiple states and other actors. In its work on the responsibility of states and international organisations, the International Law Commission recognised that attribution of acts to one actor does not exclude possible attribution of the same act to another state or organisation. However, it provided limited guidance for the often complex question of how responsibility is to be distributed among wrongdoing actors. This study fills that gap by shedding light on principles of distribution from extra-legal perspectives. Drawing on disciplines such as political theory, moral philosophy, and economics, this volume enquires into the bases and justifications for apportionment of responsibilities that can support a critique of current international law, offers insight into the justification of alternative interpretations, and provides inspiration for reform and further development of international law.

Chapter

4.1 Obligations

4.2 Causation

4.3 Contributions

4.4 The role of power

4.5 Fairness

5. Transition to positive law

5.1 The moment of distribution

5.2 The distributing actors

6. Structure of the volume

2 Shared Responsibility in International Law: A Normative-Philosophical Analysis

1. Introduction

2. Personal responsibility: causality and agency

2.1 Responsibility and causality

2.2 Responsibility and agency

2.3 Individual agency and personal responsibility: a conclusion

3. Collective responsibility

3.1 From personal to collective responsibility

3.2 Ascribing collective responsibility through the agency model

3.3 Deontological and consequentialist defences of collective responsibility

3.4 Collective responsibility and agency: a conclusion

4. From philosophical to legal arguments

5. Collective responsibility in international law

5.1 The variety of actors involved in shared international responsibility

5.2 Consequentialist defences and outcome responsibility

5.3 The distinction between private law and public law approaches

5.4 A conceptual problem or a problem of implementation?

6. Conclusions

3 Shared Political Responsibility

1. Introduction

2. Responsibility

3. Responsibility in international law

4. Climate change, responsibility, and politics

4.1 Liberal individuals and climate change

4.2 Responding to international legal responsibility

4.3 Radical responsibility

5. Conclusion

4 Ex Ante and Ex Post Allocation of International Legal Responsibility

1. Introduction: shared responsibility and national measures

1.1 Requirements regarding substance: state contingency

1.2 Specific rules and general standards regarding substance

1.3 Requirements regarding process: procedure contingency

1.4 Interaction between state contingency, rules and standards, and procedure contingency

1.5 Structure of the chapter

2. The use in international law of state contingency, rules, standards, and procedure contingency

2.1 ‘Necessity’ analysis: Brazil-Tyres

2.2 SPS requirements of scientific basis: EU-Hormones

2.3 Fair and equitable treatment under international investment law: Metalclad v. Mexico

2.4 Complementarity in the ICC

2.5 Proportionality in the law of armed conflict

3. Normative evaluation

3.1 International law and policy externalities: the value of taking into account the concerns of other states

3.2 Incomplete contracts and state contingency

3.3 State contingency: rules and standards

3.4 Procedure contingency: judicial review

3.5 Procedure contingency: burdens of proof

3.6 Procedure contingency: information and expertise asymmetry

4. Conclusion

5 Incentives, Compensation, and Irreparable Harm

1. Introduction

2. Economic analysis of joint and several liability

2.1 The (second) simplest tort

2.2 Two-actor accidents

2.3 Joint and several liability

2.4 Vicarious liability

3. Responsibility of international organisations

3.1 The law governing liability of international organisations

3.2 Incentives and accountability in international organisations

3.3 A taxonomy of tasks

4. Two examples

4.1 Poisoned wells

4.2 Cholera

5. Concluding remarks

6 Shared Responsibility in International Law: A Political Economy Analysis

1. Introduction

2. Goals of the responsibility regime

3. State responsibility de lege lata

3.1 Independent responsibility

3.2 Proportional responsibility

3.3 Joint and several liability

4. What games do states play?

4.1 Prisoners’ dilemma constellations

4.1.1 No responsibility

4.1.2 Independent responsibility

4.1.3 Proportional responsibility

4.1.4 Joint and several responsibility

4.2 Trust game constellations

4.2.1 No responsibility

4.2.2 Independent responsibility

4.2.3 Proportional responsibility

4.2.4 Joint and several responsibility

4.3 Summary of the findings on cooperation of states

5. The trade-off problem from a political economy perspective

5.1 Trade-off between the different goals of state responsibility

5.2 Institutional suggestions

6. Outlook

7 Public Power and Preventive Responsibility: Attributing the Wrongs of International Joint Ventures

1. Introduction

2. Why JPEs? Why attribution? Why wrongdoing?

3. Doctrinal dissension

4. Vigilant prevention of wrongdoing in international law

5. Due diligence, attribution, and drawing lines of responsibility

6. Attribution and lawful joint public enterprises

7. Addressing the limits of the preventive control framework

8. Conclusion

8 ‘Coalitions of the Willing’ and the Shared Responsibility to Protect

1. Introduction

2. A model of institutional moral agency

3. Coalitions of the willing as a ‘hard case’

3.1 Defining ‘coalitions of the willing’

3.2 Are coalitions of the willing institutional moral agents?

4. A gap in the analysis? Moral responsibilities and informal associations

4.1 Held’s ‘random collection’

4.2 May’s ‘middle position’

5. The moral significance of acting in concert: coalitions of the willing and responsibilities to protect

5.1 Joint purposive action, enhanced capacities, and redefined individual responsibilities to protect

5.2 Distributing responsibilities and apportioning blame amongst relevant agents

5.3 Accompanying (on-going and long-term) responsibilities

6. Conclusion

9 Distributing the Responsibility to Protect

1. Introduction

2. The unfulfilled promise of collective duties

2.1 Assigning R2P to all outside states simultaneously

2.2 Assigning R2P to international organisations

3. The potential of individual duties

3.1 Theoretical foundations

3.1.1 The seeds for crafting R2P duties

3.1.2 The seeds for grounding R2P responsibilities

3.2 Preliminary remarks on the R2P bundle

3.2.1 Duty to respect

3.2.2 Duty to protect

3.2.3 Duty not to obstruct

3.2.4 Duty to assist

4. Conclusion

10 The Problem of Shared Irresponsibility in International Climate Law

1. Introduction

2. Climate change as a collective-action problem

3. The nature of the climate change game

4. Can liability motivate shared responsibility for climate change mitigation?

4.1 The notion of ‘state responsibility’ in international law

4.1.1 Potential liability under the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol

4.1.2 Potential liability under the customary ‘no-harm’ rule

5. Polycentric approaches to climate change: of ‘regime complexes’, ‘building blocks’, ‘bottom-up approaches’ and ‘tipping sets’

6. Conclusion

11 Transboundary Damage in Climate Change Criteria for Allocating Responsibility

1. Introduction: damage and excess

2. Cumulative carbon: the science

3. Cumulative carbon: the significance

4. Profligate emissions: four allocation principles

5. The US case: causal and moral responsibility for profligacy

6. The US case: legal responsibility

7. Conclusions

12 Shared Responsibility for Climate Change: From Guilt to Taxes

1. Introduction

2. The problem

3. What is responsibility: individual and collective?

4. The ethics of climate change responsibility: individual versus collective perspectives

5. Collective guilt and collective responses

6. Guilt and taxes

7. Concluding remarks

13 How to Keep Promises: Making Sense of the Duty Among Multiple States to Fulfil Socio-Economic Rights in the World

1. Introduction

2. Bases for assigning obligations of international assistance and cooperation

2.1 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee

2.2 Causation as a basis for assigning obligations of international cooperation

2.3 Historical responsibility as a basis for assigning obligations of international cooperation

2.4 Capacity as a basis for assigning obligations of international cooperation

2.5 Capacity and the matter of cost

3. Accountability

4. Concluding remarks

14 Pirate ‘Gaolbalisation’: Dividing Responsibility Among States, Companies, and Criminals

1. Introduction

2. Ex ante responsibility - suppression and deterrence

2.1 Role of states

2.2 Private vs. public action

3. Ex post responsibility: division of labour and specialisation

4. Liability for downstream violations

5. Extensions: market-based allocation of responsibility

6. Conclusion

15 The Global Financial Crisis and Collective Moral Responsibility

1. Introduction: the problem(s)

2. Collective moral responsibility

2.1 Collective responsibility as joint responsibility

2.2 Joint action

2.3 Organisational action as joint action

3. Collective action problems

3.1 Free-riding

3.2 Collective action problems in the global banking sector

3.3 Collective action problems and collective moral responsibility

4. Institutionally embedding collective moral responsibility in the global banking sector

4.1 Institutionally embedding collective moral responsibility

4.2 Function

4.3 Structure

4.4 Culture

5. Conclusion

Index

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