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RESPONSIBILITY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS TOWARDS OTHER …
On balance, the book did not clearly take position on the perspective of draft
articles on the responsibility of international organizations, which provide rules
applicable equally to relations between States and IOs and relations of organizations
inter se
. Does it mean that the general rules do not fit for the responsibility of
international organizations towards other international organizations? It could be
easily explained by reference to
lex specialis
. The question is whether the practice of
the IOs allows discerning such special rules.
To conclude, the book of Professor Patel is a valuable contribution to the debate on
the responsibility of IOs. Its originality and strong points are mainly in the empirical
approach and detailed analysis of rules and practice of the selected organizations. The
publication may be recommended to both scholars and practitioners of international
law, as well as advanced students, who are working in the issues of responsibility and
the law of international organizations.
Pavel Šturma
*
* Prof. JUDr. Pavel Šturma, DrSc.,
is Head of the Department of International Law of the Faculty of Law,
Charles University in Prague, senior research fellow at the Institute of Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
member of the UN International Law Commission and President of the Czech Society of International Law.