The Law of International Watercourses

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Stephen C. McCaffrey (Distinguished Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law)

The Law of International Watercourses

Stephen C. McCaffrey (Distinguished Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law)

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Oxford University Press
07 March 2019

International environmental law; Settlement of international disputes

Series: Oxford International Law Library

The Law of International Watercourses is an authoritative guide to the rules of international law governing the navigational and non-navigational uses of international rivers, lakes, and groundwater. The continued growth of the world's population places increasing demands on Earth's finite supplies of fresh water. Because two or more States share many of the world's most important drainage basins - including the Danube, the Ganges, the Indus, the Jordan, the Mekong, the Nile, the Rhine and the Tigris-Euphrates - competition for increasingly scarce fresh water resources will only increase. Agreements between the States sharing international watercourses are negotiated, and disputes over shared water are resolved, against the backdrop of the rules of international law governing the use of this precious resource. The basic legal rules governing the use of shared freshwater for purposes other than navigation are reflected in the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. This book devotes a chapter to the 1997 Convention but also examines the factual and legal context in which the Convention should be understood, considers the more important rules of the Convention in some depth, and discusses specific issues that could not be addressed in a framework instrument of that kind. The book reviews the major cases and controversies concerning international watercourses as a background against which to consider the basic substantive and procedural rights and obligations of States in the field.

The third edition covers the implications of the 1997 Convention coming into force in August 2014, and the compatibility of the 1997 and 1992 Conventions. This edition also updates the entire book, adds new material to many of the chapters, and adds a number of new case studies, including Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) and Certain Activities carried out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua), amongst others.

By: Stephen C. McCaffrey (Distinguished Professor of Law University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law Distinguished Professor of Law University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 1.164kg
ISBN: 9780198736929
ISBN 10: 0198736924
Series: Oxford International Law Library
Pages: 688
Publication Date: 07 March 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Professor Stephen C. McCaffrey is Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. He served two terms on the International Law Commission, chaired that body for one of its sessions, and was the Commission's special rapporteur on international watercourses. Professor McCaffrey is a member of the Implementation Committee of the UNECE Water Convention and was the 2017 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. He has served as counsel to States in cases before the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration and has published widely in the field.

Reviews for The Law of International Watercourses

This detailed, copiously researched and eminently readable text on international watercourses from Oxford University Press (OUP) sheds the light of rigorous scrutiny and special expertise on a host of issues relating to international watercourses; environmental as well as legal. ... Indubitably this is a book which deserves a place in every well-stocked law library. * Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers, and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chamber *