Francioni, Francesco Keywords: Antarctica | Natural resources | Environmental protection | Mots clefs: Antarctique | Ressources naturelles | Protection de la nature et de l environnement | ABSTRACT Over the past twenty years the legal system of the Antarctic has undergone a remarkable evolution. At the same time, the originating instrument, the treaty of Washington of 1959, has not undergone any modifications. Francesco Francesconi, Professor at the University or Sienna, starts his course by presenting the Treaty, and inte…

Von Bar, Christian Keywords: Environmental protection | Environmental pollution | Accountability | Private international law | Polluter pays principle | Torts | Mots clefs: Protection de la nature et de l’environnement | Pollution de l’environnement | Responsabilité | Droit international privé | Principe du pollueur payeur | ABSTRACT Christian von Bar, Professor at the University of Osnabrück, starts his course on environmental damage in private international law by presenting the international dimension of "environmental liability" and the p…

Wolfrum, Rüdiger Keywords: Environmental protection | International law | Mots clefs: Protection de la nature et de l environnement | Droit international | ABSTRACT Rüdiger Wolfrum, director of the Max-Planck Institute Comparative Public Law and International Law, splits his course on the means of ensuring compliance with and enforcement of international law into seven chapters. After an introductory chapter, Rüdiger Wolfrum describes the régimes that have been designed to ensure that the obligations to provide for the…

Bothe, Michael Keywords: Natural resources | Economic development | Environmental protection | Social justice | Sustainable development | Mots clefs: Ressources naturelles | Développement économique | Protection de la nature et de l'environnement | Justice distributive | Développement durable | ABSTRACT The environment, development, and natural resources constitute the main challenge for the international order of our time, and also for the international law. Michael Bothe, Professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfur…

A. Fitzmaurice, Malgosia Keywords: Environmental protection | International environmental law | Environmental damage | Accountability | Judicial settlement of international disputes | Non-compliance | Mots clefs: Protection de la nature et de l environnement | ABSTRACT International environmental law is part and parcel of international law and it should be viewed from that perspective, according to Professor Fitzmaurice, Professor at Queen Mary College at the University of London. Certain features of international environmental la…