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The Fifty-Seventh Session of the International Law Commission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Michael J. Matheson
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The International Law Commission held its fifty-seventh session in Geneva from May 2 to June 3, and from July 11 to August 5, 2005. The Commission continued its work on shared natural resources, reservations to treaties, responsibility of international organizations, unilateral acts of states, and fragmentation of international law. It began work on the effect of armed conflict on treaties and expulsion of aliens, and decided to begin work next year on the obligation to prosecute or extradite. It took no further action for the time being on diplomatic protection or on international liability for transboundary harm, pending the receipt of comments from governments on the texts adopted on first reading in 2004.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 100 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 416 - 428
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2006

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1 See Report of the International Law Commission on Its Fifty-seventh Session (May 2-June 3 and July 11-August 5, 2005), UN GAOR, 60th Sess., Supp. No. 10, at 12-43, paras. 30-107, UN Doc. A/60/10 (2005) [hereinafter 2005 Report]. Commission documents, including those cited below, are available online at <http://www.un.org/law/ilc>.

2 UN Doc. A/CN.4/539 (2004).

3 UN Doc. A/CN.4/551 (2005).

4 Id. at 1, para. 2.

5 2005 Report, supra note 1, paras. 49-53.

6 Report of the Working Group on Shared Natural Resources, UN Doc. A/CN.4/L.681 (2005).

7 Id. at 4.

8 Id. at 4-5.

9 Id. at 5-6.

10 Id. at 6. Also of interest are Article 7, which provides that all aquifer states are to cooperate for the purpose of attaining equitable and reasonable utilization and appropriate protection of aquifer systems, and Article 8, which provides that aquifer states are to exchange “readily available data and information” on their aquifers, use their “best efforts” to collect and generate such information, and provide it to other aquifer states on request. Id. at 6-7.

11 2005 Report, supra note 1, at 162-203, paras. 437-38.

12 The Commission began its work in 2005 by disposing of an item—the definition of “objections” to reservations —that had been debated but not resolved in 2004. In the end, the term was defined as a “unilateral statement, however phrased or named,” that purports “to exclude or to modify the legal effects of the reservation, or to exclude the application of the treaty as a whole,” as between the reserving and objecting states. Draft guideline 2.6.1, id. at 186, para. 438. This definition was designed to avoid prejudicing the ongoing debate on the legal effect of objections and to include a wide range of possible responses to reservations.

13 UN Doc. A/CN.4/558 & Adds.l & 2 (2005).

14 Guidelines 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, & 3.1.4, id., paras. 20, 32, 49, 63, & 69, respectively.

15 Guideline 3.1.5, id., para. 89.

16 Guideline 3.1.7, id., para. 115.

17 Guideline 3.1.9, id., para. 146.

18 Guideline 3AA0, id.

19 Guideline 3.1.12, id., para. 102.

20 Guideline 3.1.13, id., para. 99.

21 Guidelines 3.2-3.2.3, id., paras. 167-79.

22 2005 Report, supra note 1, at 153-60, paras. 389-426.

23 Id. at 79-82, para. 205.

24 Id. at 100-05, para. 206

25 Id. at 9, para. 26.

26 Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, in Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of Its Fifty-third Session, UN GAOR, 56th Sess., Supp. No. 10, at 43, UN Doc. A/56/10 (2001).

27 See 2005 Report, supra note 1, at 129-39, paras. 275-332.

28 UN Doc. A/CN.4/557 (2005).

29 2005 Report, supra note 1, at 139, paras. 331-32.

30 Report of the International Law Commission on Its Fifty-sixth Session (May 3-June 4 and July 5-August 6, 2004), UN GAOR, 59th Sess., Supp. No. 10, at 284-93, paras. 303-30, UN Doc. A/59/10 (2004) [hereinafter 2004 Report].

31 2005 Report, supra note 1, at 221-25, paras. 480-93. 32 UN Doc. A/CN.4/552 (2005).

33 2005 Report, supra note 1, at 54-56, paras. 142-48.

34 Id. at 56 n.46.

35 2005 Report, supra note 1, at 56-59, paras. 149-56.

36 Id. at63n.51.

37 Id. at 64-66, paras. 169-73.

38 Id. at 63-64, para. 167.

39 Id. at 51, 52-53, paras. 135, 138-40.

40 Id. at 55, 68, paras. 144, 180.

41 Id. at 69-70, paras. 182-87.

42 UN Doc. A/CN.4/554 (2005).

43 2005 Report, supra note 1, at 117-28, paras. 242-74.

44 2004 Report, supra note 30, at 153-217, paras. 175-76.

45 Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of Its Fifty-third Session, UN GAOR, 56th Sess., Supp. No. 10, at 370-77, para. 97, UN Doc. A/56/10 (2001).

46 UN Doc. A/CN.4/531 (2003); UN Doc. A/CN.4/540 (2004).

47 2004 Report, supra note 30, at 153-56, para. 175.

48 Id. at 157-217, para. 176.

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50 2004 Report, supra note 30, at 17-93, paras. 59-60.

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52 UN Doc. A/CN.4/561, at 17-21 (2006).

53 ICSID No. ARB(AF)/98/3 (NAFTA Ch. 11 Arb. Trib. June 26, 2003), 42 ILM 811 (2003); see also William, S. Dodge, Case Report: Loewen Group, Inc. v. United States; Mondev International Ltd. v. United States, 98 AJIL 155 (2004)Google Scholar.

54 UN Doc. A/CN.4/561, supra note 52, at 33-35.

55 Id. at 41-43.

56 2005 Report, supra note 1, at 227, para. 500.

57 Id, para. 499.