The International Law Commission's Articles On State Responsibility: Introduction, Text and Commentaries

Preface Note on sources and style List of abbreviations Table of cases Introduction Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts: Part I. The Internationally Wrongful Act of a State: 1. General principles 2. Attribution of conduct to a state 3. Breach of an international obligation 4. Responsibility of a state in connection with the act of another state 5. Circumstances precluding wrongfulness Part II. Content of the International Responsibility of a State: 6. General principles 7. Reparation for injury 8. Serious breaches of obligations under peremptory norms of general international law Part III. The Implementation of the International Responsibility of a State: 9. Invocation of the responsibility of a state 10. Countermeasures Part IV. General Provisions Appendix 1: drafting history Appendix 2: Draft articles on state responsibility provisionally adopted by the International Law Commission on first reading (1996) Appendix 3: table of equivalent articles Select bibliography Index.