Latest publications

2014

Shared Responsibility in International Law: A Normative-Philosophical Analysis

Roland Pierik

This chapter is forthcoming in the second edited volume of the SHARES book series: André Nollkaemper and Dov Jacobs (eds.), Distribution of Responsibilities in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

2014

Power and Responsibility

André Nollkaemper

This paper critically reviews the popular proposition that ‘power breeds responsibility’. It first explains why this proposition is intuitively appealing. Particularly in situations where multiple actors contribute to harm, power can be a criterion for determining who of a multitude … Read more

2014

Proving the Extraordinary – Issues of Evidence and Attribution in Cases of Extraordinary Rendition

William Byrne

This paper, written by an LLM student at the University of Amsterdam, is a revised version of his master thesis. Abstract: A number of cases before the UN Human Rights Committee, the UN Committee Against Torture, and the European Court of … Read more

2014

Concerted Adjudication in Cases of Shared Responsibility

André Nollkaemper

In this article, I address the question of the grounds on which an international court that is asked to determine the responsibility of a state and the possible consequences thereof should attach weight to prior judicial findings by different courts … Read more

2014

Serious Breaches of Peremptory Norms

Eric A. Wyler and León A. Castellanos-Jankiewicz

This chapter has been published in the first edited volume of the SHARES book series: André Nollkaemper and Ilias Plakokefalos (eds.), Principles of Shared Responsibility in International Law: An Appraisal of the State of the Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, … Read more

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