Evolution and status of the precautionary principle in international law.

Door: Trouwborst, Arie.

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• ISBN: 9789041117854
• Uitgever: The Hague : Kluwer Law International, c2002. Hardcover. xiv,378 pp. 25 cm. (International environmental law and policy series, 62). Orig. edition. Rare. Copy inscribed by the author. Conditie: goed
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• Extra informatie: - The controversial question of whether or not at present the precautionary principle is to be considered a norm of customary international law is the key theme of this work, which treats the issue as part of a broader discussion of the principle's legal status on the international plane. This discussion, in turn, is put in perspective by an account of the short but remarkable history of the principle in international environmental law and policy. The greater part of this study consists of the mapping and analysis of state practice in respect of the precautionary principle. Pertinent treaties, declarations, decisions of international organizations and domestic instruments pass in review. The book then applies the generally accepted principles governing the formation of customary international law to this body of state practice. Relevant international judicial decisions and the opinions of scholars are treated as well. Two extensive annexes are added, reproducing provisions of international legal instruments that make reference to the principle. This manuscript was awarded the Francois Prize 2001 by the Netherlands Society of International Law / Netherlands Branch of the ILA. `[The precautionary principle] has been cited in an increasing number of legal proceedings, including those in the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the WTO Appellate Body, as well as in the courts of a large number of states, including the supreme courts of India and Canada. It is some tribute to the work of Arie Trouwborst that we are able to cite these statistics with such confidence, but his work goes much beyond this. It is a most careful analysis of these sources, which adds qualitatively to our understanding of the way in which this modest principle of German law has evolved into one of the most significant premises of modern international environmental law. In our series mission statement we recognize the importance of the precautionary principle as one of the basic principles of international environmental law. It is a pleasure to be able to bring to a wider public some of the best of modern thinking on this principle.
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