Responsibility of international organizations : essays in memory of Sir Ian Brownlie / edited by Maurizio Ragazzi.

Preliminary Material -- 1. Some Reflections on Basic Issues Concerning the Responsibility of International Organizations / Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade -- 2. The Processes of Law-Making: Τhe Law Relating to International Organizations as an Example / Kenneth Keith -- 3. Codification, Progressive Development, or Scholarly Analysis? The Art of Packaging the ILC’s Work Product / Sean D. Murphy -- 4. International Organizations Are Definitely Not States. Cursory Remarks on the ILC Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations / Alain Pellet -- 5. ‘Weighing’ the Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations / Michael Wood -- 6. An Assessment of the ILC’s Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations / C.F. Amerasinghe -- 7. International Organizations and State Responsibility / Dan Sarooshi -- 8. Viability of the ILC’s Articles Formulated on the Basis of the Articles on State Responsibility / Chusei Yamada -- 9. Parallel Worlds, Parallel Clauses: Remarks on the Relationship between the Two Sets of ILC Articles on International Responsibility and the UN Charter / Maurizio Arcari -- 10. An Uneasy Transition? Linkages between the Law of State Responsibility and the Law Governing the Responsibility of International Organizations / Vincent-Joël Proulx -- 11. Within and Beyond Mutatis Mutandis / Tullio Scovazzi -- 12. The Role of Lex Specialis in the Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations / Kristen E. Boon -- 13. Reflections on the Scope of Application of the Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations / Arnold N. Pronto -- 14. Practice as a Relevant Factor for the Responsibility of International Organizations / Emmanuel Roucounas -- 15. The ILC’s Articles Seen from a WHO Perspective / Gian Luca Burci and Clemens Feinäugle -- 16. European Exceptionalism in International Law? The European Union and the System of International Responsibility / José Manuel Cortés Martín -- 17. ILC Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations: Τhe Interplay between the Practice and the Rule (A View from the United Nations) / Daphna Shraga -- 18. United in Joy and Sorrow: Some Considerations on Responsibility Issues under Partnerships among International Financial Institutions / Laurence Boisson de Chazournes -- 19. Codification, Progressive Development or Innovation? Some Reflections on the ILC Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations / Ross Leckow and Erik Plith -- 20. The World Bank and the ILC’s Project on the Responsibility of International Organizations / Maurizio Ragazzi -- 21. The Responsibility of International Organizations: Selected Reflections from the Perspective of a Former Legal Counsel to the Holy See / Robert John Araujo -- 22. The Elusive Allocation of Responsibility to Informal Organizations: Τhe Case of the Quartet on the Middle East / John Dugard and Annemarieke Vermeer-Künzli -- 23. Attribution of Conduct after the Advisory Opinion on the Global Mechanism / Rutsel Silvestre J. Martha -- 24. Responsibility of Member States towards Third Parties for an Internationally Wrongful Act of the Organization / Kazuhiro Nakatani.

In December 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Law Commission's articles on the responsibility of international organizations, bringing to conclusion not only nearly ten years of reflection by the Commission, governments and organizations on this specific topic, but also decades of study of the wider subject of international responsibility, which had initially focused on State responsibility. Parallel to this reflection by the Commission, diplomats and public officials, the body of international case-law and literature on the many facets of the topic has steadily been growing. Responsibility of International Organizations: Essays in Memory of Sir Ian Brownlie contributes to the body of international literature by collecting a broad spectrum of different and sometimes differing perspectives from well-known experts in the field, ranging from the bench to the Commission, academia, and the world of in-house counsel. The book is also a memorial to the renowned Sir Ian Brownlie, himself a former Chairman of the International Law Commission who, as a leading scholar and practitioner, greatly contributed to the reflection on international responsibility, including the responsibility of international organizations. Edited by Maurizio Ragazzi, a former pupil of Sir Ian, the book is an ideal companion to International Responsibility Today , a collection of essays on international responsibility which the same editor presented in 2005 in memory of Oscar Schachter, and to which Sir Ian Brownlie had contributed. The essays collected in Responsibility of International Organizations: Essays in Memory of Sir Ian Brownlie , conveniently grouped by the editor under broad areas for the reader's benefit, will be relevant not only to all those interested in this specific subject but also, more generally, to all those engaged in the field of international law and the law of international organizations.