¹ See e.g., Minding Our Business: The Role of Corporate Accountability in Sustainable Development. An NGO report to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (last modified Mar. 28, 1997) is available at <http://www.corporate-accountability.org/docs/tobistat.htm>.

² See the commentary on Article 1 reproduced in James Crawford, the International Law Commission’s Articles on State Responsibility: Introduction, Text and Commentaries 77-80 (2002).

³ Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, para. 43 (G.E.M. Anscombe trans., 1953).

⁴ Ratner, Steven R., Democracy and Accountability: The Criss-Crossing Paths of Two Emerging Norms; Democratic Governance and International Law (Fox, Gregory H. & Roth, Brad R. eds., 2000)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

⁵ See Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of Its Fiftieth Session, UN Gaor, 53rd Sess., Supp. No. 10, at 218, UN Doc. A/53/10 (1998), available at <http://www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/1998/98repfra.htm>.

⁶ See id.

⁷ See United Nations, The Work of the International Law Commission 69-70 (5th ed. 1996). For the text of the Convention, see id. at 392.

⁸ See id. at 92-98. For the text of the Convention, see id. at 464.

⁹ See Report of the International Law Commission, UN Gaor, 55th Sess., Suppl. No. 10, at 299, UN Doc. A/55/10 (2000), available at <http://www.un.org/law/ilc/reportfra.htm>.

¹⁰ See Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its Forty-Ninth Session, UN Gaor, 52nd Sess., Suppl. No. 10, at 154, UN Doc. A/52/10 (1997), available at <http://www.un.org/law/ilc/reportfra.htm>.

¹¹ See 2000 Report of the International Law Commission, supra note 9, at 290.

¹² International Law Commission, Report on the Work of its Fifty-Fourth Session, UN Gaor, 55th Sess., Suppl. No. 10, at 228, UN Doc. A/57/10 (2002), available at <http://www.un.org/law/ilc/reportfra.htm>.

¹⁵ Id.

¹⁴ Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects, opened for signature Mar. 29, 1972, 24 UST 2389, 961 UNTS 187.

¹⁵ The First Report was presented to the 68th Conference of the ILA at Taipei, see The International Law Association, Report of 68th Conference, Taipei 1998,584; the second was submitted to the 70th Conference in New Delhi; see, The International Law Association, Report of 70th Conference, New Delhi 2002, at 772.

¹⁶ See Report of 70th Conference, supra note 15, at 786.

¹⁷ Id. at 773.

¹⁸ In this respect the following principles are listed as belonging to the full scope of accountability: (1) good faith; (2) constitutionality; (3) institutional balance; (4) supervision and control; (5) stating the reasons for decisions or a particular course of action; (6) proportionality; (7) procedural regularity; (8) objectivity and impartiality; (9) due diligence; and (10) promoting justice. See id. at 774.

¹⁹ Id. at 774.

²⁰ Reinisch, August, Securing the Accountability of International Organizations, in 7 Global Governance a Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 131, 131 (2001)Google Scholar.

²¹ These difficulties generated the new discussion of the legal regime of reservations in the ILC.

²² The first genuinely multilateral convention was the Declaration of Paris of 1815, Krystyna Marek, Contribution à l’Etude de l’Histoire du Traité Multilatéral, in Festschrift Für Rudolf Bindeschedler 17, 17-18 (Emanuel Diez et al. eds., 1980).