Includes bibliographical references and index.

Oscar Schachter's summary biography -- Oscar Schachter's select bibliography -- Ch. 1. The essence of the structure of international responsibility / Chittharanjan Felix Amerasinghe -- Ch. 2. Legal injury : the tip of the iceberg in the law of state responsibility? / Julio Barboza -- Ch. 3. State crime : looking at municipal experience with organizational crime / David D. Caron -- Ch. 4. Do states have a duty to ensure compliance with obligations Erga Omnes by other states? / Giorgio Gaja -- Ch. 5. Diplomacy and state responsibility / Kazuhiro Nakatani -- Ch. 6. Controlling countermeasures / Mary Ellen O'Connell -- Ch. 7. International crimes and state responsibility / Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao -- Ch. 8. International responsibility and the principle of causality / Francois Rigaux -- Ch. 9. A plea for 'reconstruction' of international responsibility based on the notion of legal injury / Brigitte Stern -- Ch. 10. The art of apology / Arthur Watts -- Ch. 11. Revisiting the international law commission's draft articles on state responsibility / Chusei Yamada -- Ch. 12. Does the prospect of incurring responsibility improve the observance of international law? / Karl Zemanek -- Ch. 13. War against terrorism Exlra Moenia, self-defence and responsibility : a pure juridical approach / Giovanni Battaglini -- Ch. 14. International responsibility of the state and individual criminal responsibility in the international protection of human rights / Hector Gros Espiell -- Ch. 15. The protection of shareholders under international law : making state responsibility more accessible / Francisco Orrego Vicuna -- Ch. 16. The limits of international responsibility in the protection of foreign investments / Vratislav Pechota -- Ch. 17. International responsibility and cooperation for development / Jorge Peirano -- Ch. 18. Italy's non-belligerency during the Iraqi war / Natalino Ronzitti -- Ch. 19. Some remarks on international responsibility in the field of environmental protection / Tullio Scovazzi -- Ch. 20. The International Law Commission's articles on state responsibility and the settlement of disputes / Tullio Treves -- Ch. 21. Humanitarian intervention and international responsibility / Budislav Vukas -- Ch. 22. Just satisfaction under the European Convention on Human Rights / Rudolf Bernhardt -- Ch. 23. Complementarity between state responsibility and individual responsibility for grave violations of human rights : the crime of state revisited / Antonio Augusto Cancado Trindade -- Ch. 24. The International Court of Justice : selected issues of state responsibility / Rosalyn Higgins -- Ch. 25. Registration of foreign judgments under the European Convention of Human Rights and the law of international responsibility / Laura Picchio Forlati -- Ch. 26. Decisions of the International Court of Justice and the new law of state responsibility / Shabtai Rosenne -- Ch. 27. Injured and non-injured state before the International Court of Justice / Hugh Thirlway -- Ch. 28. The Oil Platforms case before the International Court of Justice : a non-case of international responsibility / Prosper Weil and Daphne Richemond -- Ch. 29. Objective meaning of constituent instruments and responsibility of international organizations / Robert John Araujo -- Ch. 30. The responsibility of states for the acts of international organizations / Ian Brownlie -- Ch. 31. The international responsibility of the United Nations for injuries resulting from non-military enforcement measures / Christian Dominice -- Ch. 32. The definition of 'international organization' in the International Law Commission's current project on the responsibility of international organizations / Maurice Mendelson -- Ch. 33. Non-state actors : areas of international responsibility in need of further exploration / Emmanuel Roucounas -- Ch. 34. Responsibility of international organizations : does the European Community require special treatment? / Stefan Talmon -- Ch. 35. State responsibility for private actors : an old problem of renewed relevance / Rudiger Wolfrum -- Ch. 36. The responsibility of states members of an international organization for its conduct as a result of membership or their normal conduct associated with membership / Sienho Yee.