Editor's Dedication -- Editor's Preface -- Oscar Schachter's Summary Biography -- Oscar Schachter's Select Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Table of Documents -- List of Abbreviations -- PART ONE - STATE RESPONSIBILITY (GENERAL ISSUES) -- Chapter One The Essence of the Structure of International Responsibility (Chittharanjan Felix Amerasinghe) -- Chapter Two Legal Injury: The Tip of the Iceberg in the Law of State Responsibility? (Julio Barboza) -- Chapter Three State Crime: Looking at Municipal Experience with Organizational Crime (David D. Caron) -- Chapter Four Do States Have a Duty to Ensure Compliance with Obligations Erga Omnes by Other States? (Giorgio Gaja) -- Chapter Five Diplomacy and State Responsibility (Kazuhiro Nakatani) -- Chapter Six Controlling Countermeasures (Mary Ellen O'Connell) -- Chapter Seven International Crimes and State Responsibility (Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao) -- Chapter Eight International Responsibility and the Principle of Causality (François Rigaux) -- Chapter Nine A Plea for 'Reconstruction' of International Responsibility Based on the Notion of Legal Injury (Brigitte Stern) -- Chapter Ten The Art of Apology (Sir Arthur Watts) -- Chapter Eleven Revisiting the International Law Commission's Draft Articles on State Responsibility (Chusei Yamada) -- Chapter Twelve Does the Prospect of Incurring Responsibility Improve the Observance of International Law? (Karl Zemanek) -- PART TWO - STATE RESPONSIBILITY (PARTICULAR CONCERNS) -- Chapter Thirteen War Against Terrorism Extra Moenia, Self-defence and Responsibility: A Pure Juridical Approach (Giovanni Battaglini) -- Chapter Fourteen International Responsibility of the State and Individual Criminal Responsibility in the International Protection of Human Rights (Héctor Gros Espiell).

Chapter Fifteen The Protection of Shareholders under International Law: Making State Responsibility more Accessible (Francisco Orrego Vicuña) -- Chapter Sixteen The Limits of International Responsibility in the Protection of Foreign Investments (Vratislav Pechota) -- Chapter Seventeen International Responsibility and Cooperation for Development (Jorge Peirano) -- Chapter Eighteen Italy's Non-belligerency during the Iraqi War (Natalino Ronzitti) -- Chapter Nineteen Some Remarks on International Responsibility in the Field of Environmental Protection (Tullio Scovazzi) -- Chapter Twenty The International Law Commission's Articles on State Responsibility and the Settlement of Disputes (Tullio Treves) -- Chapter Twenty-One Humanitarian Intervention and International Responsibility (Budislav Vukas) -- PART THREE - STATE RESPONSIBILITY AND THE COURTS -- Chapter Twenty-Two Just Satisfaction under the European Convention on Human Rights (Rudolf Bernhardt) -- Chapter Twenty-Three Complementarity between State Responsibility and Individual Responsibility for Grave Violations of Human Rights: The Crime of State Revisited (Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade) -- Chapter Twenty-Four The International Court of Justice: Selected Issues of State Responsibility (Dame Rosalyn Higgins) -- Chapter Twenty-Five Registration of Foreign Judgments under the European Convention of Human Rights and the Law of International Responsibility (Laura Picchio Forlati) -- Chapter Twenty-Six Decisions of the International Court of Justice and the New Law of State Responsibility (Shabtai Rosenne) -- Chapter Twenty-Seven Injured and Non-injured States before the International Court of Justice (Hugh Thirlway) -- Chapter Twenty-Eight The Oil Platforms Case before the International Court of Justice: A Non-case of International Responsibility (Prosper Weil and Daphné Richemond).

PART FOUR - RESPONSIBILITY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONSAND OTHER NON-STATE ENTITIES -- Chapter Twenty-Nine Objective Meaning of Constituent Instruments and Responsibility of International Organizations (Robert John Araujo SJ) -- Chapter Thirty The Responsibility of States for the Acts of International Organizations (Ian Brownlie) -- Chapter Thirty-One The International Responsibility of the United Nations for Injuries Resulting from Non-Military Enforcement Measures (Christian Dominicé) -- Chapter Thirty-Two The Definition of 'International Organization' in the International Law Commission's Current Project on the Responsibility of International Organizations (Maurice Mendelson) -- Chapter Thirty-Three Non-State Actors: Areas of International Responsibility in Need of Further Exploration (Emmanuel Roucounas) -- Chapter Thirty-Four Responsibility of International Organizations: Does the European Community Require Special Treatment? (Stefan Talmon) -- Chapter Thirty-Five State Responsibility for Private Actors: An Old Problem of Renewed Relevance (Rüdiger Wolfrum) -- Chapter Thirty-Six The Responsibility of States Members of an International Organization for its Conduct as a Result of Membership or their Normal Conduct Associated with Membership (Sienho Yee) -- Bibliography -- Index -- Memorial List.