International Responsibility Today: Essays in Memory of Oscar Schachter

by Maurizio Ragazzi

Overview

The law of international responsibility, a classic area of investigation in international law, has been attracting an ever increasing interest in recent times, as reflected also in the work of the International Law Commission on State responsibility and on responsibility of international organizations. The exploration of current trends in this important area is therefore an appropriate and timely subject for a book in memory of Oscar Schachter, a former United Nations official, Columbia Law School professor, ASIL President, and international lawyer of world-wide reputation, who died in December 2003.
The editor of the book has assembled a team of thirty-six prominent international lawyers belonging to twenty different nationalities to write about different aspects of the law of international responsibility, from general issues to specific areas of the law (including responsibility before international courts and tribunals), with respect to both the law of State responsibility and responsibility of international organizations and other non-State actors.
The result of this effort is a monographic volume (enriched by a biography and a list of publications of Oscar Schachter, and accompanied by a bibliography of all the works cited in the various contributions and an index for easier consultation), which will be of interest not only to the many admirers and friends of Oscar Schachter around the world, but also, more broadly, to international law academics and practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004144347
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/16/2005
Pages:	478
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.56(d)

About the Author

Maurizio Ragazzi, LLM (Columbia) and DPhil (Oxford), is Senior Counsel, specializing in international law, at The World Bank, and the editor of this book in his private capacity, as a former pupil of Oscar Schachter.

Table of Contents

The link to the Table of Contents can be found in the Extra column on the right side of the screen.

Editorial Reviews

This brief survey only covers some of the many aspects raised in the present volume. It is believed that the five trends summarized in the preceding paragraphs indicate directions in which research on responsibility may move in the years to come. In addition, at a more general level, it may be worh pointing out that taken together, the 36 contributions once more underline the major theoretical and practical importance of "responibility" as one the few truly general topics of international law. To have chosen this topic as the leitmotif for a book in memory of one of the true generalists of the discipline was no doubt a fortunate decision.
Christian J. Tams, German Yearbook of International Law, 2005.

This is a useful potpourri of delectables, which would have been of great interest to Prof. Schachter, as well as aficionados of his wide range of subjects interests. Its authors are among the world's elite.
American Society of International Law Newsletter, 2006.

... un véritable manuel collectif de la responsabilité internationale en ce début de XXIe siècle, indispensable à quiconque souhaite avoir un panorama des différentes conceptions sur ce sujet qui continue, malgré et peut-être en raison de l’achèvement de la codification, d’agiter les milieux internationalistes.
Annuaire français de droit international, Vol. 50 – 2004. (2005)

Oscar Schachter was one of the most influential – and esteemed – international lawyers of the twentieth century. International Responsibility Today is a testament to the regard in which he was held. It is a testament of which he would have approved. …[t]his volume is exceptional because of the centrality and unity of the theme and the sustained quality of its contributions…. The editor is to be commended for stimulating and assembling so valuable a collection of essays..
Stephen M. Schwebel in The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 101:1

From the Publisher