The Law of International Watercourses

ISBN-13: 9780198736929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 688 str.

Stephen C. McCaffrey

Opis

This fully updated new edition of The Law of International Watercourses examines the rules of international law governing the use of international rivers, lakes, and groundwater shared by two or more countries.

Recenzje

This detailed, copiously researched and eminently readable text on international watercourses from Oxford University Press (OUP) sheds the light of rigorous scrutiny and special expertise on a host of issues relating to international watercourses; environmental as well as legal. ... Indubitably this is a book which deserves a place in every well-stocked law library. Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers, and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chamber

O autorze

Professor Stephen C. McCaffrey is Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. He served two terms on the International Law Commission, chaired that body for one of its sessions, and was the Commission's special rapporteur on international watercourses. Professor McCaffrey is a member of the Implementation Committee of the UNECE Water Convention and was the 2017 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. He has served as counsel to States in cases before the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration and has published widely in the field.