Books in the Shared Responsibility in International Law series

This volume examines to what extent the dominant principles of international responsibility can address scenarios in which multiple actors combine to produce harmful outcomes. From the perspective of shared responsibility, the contributors explore the potentials and limitations of current law and provide a basis for further development.

International law provides only limited guidance for distributing responsibility among multiple wrongdoing actors. Drawing on disciplines such as political theory, moral philosophy, and economics, this book explores the possible grounds for distribution of responsibility and provides a basis for the further development and reform of international law.

This volume examines to what extent the dominant principles of international responsibility can address scenarios in which multiple actors combine to produce harmful outcomes. From the perspective of shared responsibility, the contributors explore the potentials and limitations of current law and provide a basis for further development.

This comprehensive volume seeks to provide a better understanding of the practice of shared responsibility. The authors explore a wide range of different issue areas and regimes, and in so doing expose the significant differences and enlightening commonalities in the practice of this vitally important aspect of international law.

International law provides only limited guidance for distributing responsibility among multiple wrongdoing actors. Drawing on disciplines such as political theory, moral philosophy, and economics, this book explores the possible grounds for distribution of responsibility and provides a basis for the further development and reform of international law.