Cohen, Maxwell Keywords: Canada | United States of America | Great Lakes | Boundary wateInternational watercourses | Water | Shared natural resources | International regime | Mots clefs: Canada | Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Cours d eau frontières | Lacs (Grands) | ABSTRACT Maxwell Cohen, Professor at Mc Gill University, notes that the importance of study of international rivers in public international law comes from the geophysical reality that rivers impose on peoples, and artificial political divisions that cut off rivers or create divisi…

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…

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…

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…

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…