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…

Colliard, Claude-Albert Keywords: Boundary wateWater | Mots clefs: Cours d eau frontières | ABSTRACT Claude-Albert Colliard writes in the introduction to his course that international river law is obviously a part of entire public international law, but it presents the analysis of particular features. Two notions seem to characterize international river law: a notion of relativity or specificity, and a notion of finality. From these notions, the author examines the questions related to the use of rivers and b…