State Responsibility

Annexed to GA Resolution 56/83 of 2001 the International Law Commission''s Articles on Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts put the international law of responsibility on a sound footing. As Special Rapporteur for the second reading James Crawford helped steer it to a successful conclusion. With this book he provides a detailed analysis of the general law of international responsibility and the place of state responsibility in particular within that framework. It serves as a companion to The International Law Commission''s Articles on State Responsibility: Introduction Text and Commentaries (Cambridge 2002) and is essential reading for scholars and practitioners concerned with issues of international responsibility whether they arise in interstate relations in the context of arbitration or litigation or in bringing international claims.