LAWS259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Legal Personality, Ultra Vires
14 Jul 2020
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Required readings: draft articles on state responsibility, brownlie, chap 25. Chapter 25: the conditions for international responsibility: configuring the law of responsibility. In international relations as in other social relations, an infringement on the legal interest of one subject of the law by another creates responsibility in a form and to an extent determined by the applicable legal system. International responsibility is traditionally attributed to states as the major subjects of international law but is broader question inseparable from legal personality in all its forms: the basis and character of state responsibility. Breach of international obligation entails the responsibility of the state concerned. (a) origins (b) the classification of international wrongs: attribution to the state (a) general aspects. Every breach of duty on the part of states must arise by reason of the act or omission of one or more organs or agents. The judicature (c) ultra vires or unauthorised acts.
