Chapter 5: Relevant Norms of General International Law

Recommended materials

Christian Tomuschat, “What is General International Law?” (Audiovisual Library of International Law).

International Law Commission, Study on the protection of the atmosphere, led by Special Rapporteur Shinya Murase

Trail Smelter (U.S. v. Canada), Arbitral Award of 11 March 1941, (1949) III UNRIAA 1938, at 1965

Supplementary materials

UNCED, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (3-14 June 1992), available in (1992) 31 ILM 874

ICJ, Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay), judgment of 20 April 2010

Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations, adopted by a group of experts on 1 March 2015

Peter H. Sand & Jonathan B. Wiener, “Towards a New International Law of the Atmosphere?” (2016) 7:2 Göttingen Journal of International Law 195

Eric A. Posner & David A. Weisbach, Climate Change Justice (Princeton University Press, 1010)

Roda Verheyen, Climate Change Damage and International Law: Prevention Duties and State Responsibility (Brill, 2005)

Stephen Humphreys (ed.), Human rights and Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Alexander Zahar, “Mediated versus Cumulative Environmental Damage and the International Law Association’s Legal Principles on Climate Change” (2014) 4:3-4 Climate Law 217

Benoit Mayer, “State Responsibility and Climate Change Governance: A Light through the Storm” (2014) 13:3 Chinese Journal of International Law 539

Benoit Mayer, “The Applicability of the Principle of Prevention to Climate Change: A Response to Zahar” (2015) 5:1 Climate Law 1

Christina Voigt, “State Responsibility for Climate Change Damages” (2008) 77:1 Nordic Journal of International Law 1

Jorge E. Viñuales (ed.), The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2015)

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