Keshner M.V. International responsibility as the art of justice: peer review on the book “Diffusion of Responsibility in International Law”/Edited by André Nollkaemper and Dov Jacobs. Cambeidge. 2015. – 474 p.

Abstract:   The work “Diffusion of Responsibility in International Law” edited by the prominent scholar and professor of Public International Law at University of Amsterdam, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, president of the European Society of International Law André Nollkaemper represents a research on international responsibility in the context of problematic of the shared responsibility and criteria of its distribution. The publication present theoretical and practical interest for the international legal experts, scholars, students and post-graduate students, and others interested in the problems of international law and international relations. Examination of the normative grounds of the questions of international responsibility (Article of the UN Commission of International Law on responsibility of the states for international illegal activity, and project of Articles on responsibility of international organizations) leads to the conclusion on their incapability to resolve the most complicated practical questions, which emerge in commission of the illegal actions by the international organizations. The authors attempt to find substantiation to the criteria of distribution of responsibility in such areas as political theory, philosophy, economics, and particularly the criterion of fairness.  

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