Sauser-Hall, Georges Keywords: International watercourses | Water | Mots clefs: Cours d eau internationaux | C2001b | ABSTRACT After an introduction to the difficulty in finding general rules in the field of the industrial use of international rivers, Georges Sauser-Hall presents the legal status of rivers in domestic law. He then presents the principles applicable to the industrial use of international rivers, the rights of States over the driving force of international rivers, and the issues of treaties and hydraulic concessions. Après une introduction dans laquelle il pré…

Koutikov, Vladimir Keywords: Inland navigation | Private international law | International watercourses | Exploitation | Water | Mots clefs: Navigation intérieure | Droit international privé | Cours d'eau internationaux | Exploitation | ABSTRACT The main task that Vladimir Koutikov assigns to his course is to systematically present the current aspect and, if possible, the prospects for the future evolution of the main problems of international private river law. He successively examines the sources of international private rive…

Sette-Camara, José Keywords: International watercourses | Water pollution | Water | Shared natural resources | Mots clefs: C2001b | ABSTRACT J. Sette-Camara, Vice-President of the International Court of Justice, devotes his course to the pollution of international rivers. After the description of water, rivers, and international rivers, the author makes a presentation about the pollution. He then takes into account the growing awareness of environmental problems, successively studies the international law and inter…

Caflisch, Lucius Keywords: International watercourses | Water | Mots clefs: Cours d eau internationaux | ABSTRACT In his introduction to the course, Lucius Caflish, Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, points out that rivers can have a unifying or separating function. The unifying function implies that the rivers form a natural environment whose management and conservation require common or concerted measures. The separating function implies that deserts, glaciers, or mountain…

Brown Weiss, Edith Keywords: International watercourses | Water | Shared natural resources | Conventions | Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (New York, 21 May 1997) | International dispute settlement | Human rights | International trade | World Trade Organization | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | International trade | Mots clefs: Cours d'eau internationaux | Eau | Ressources naturelles partagées | conventions | Convention sur le droit relatif aux utilisations des cours d'eau internationaux à des fins autres q…