International Community Law Review – The special issue on ‘Transboundary Aquifers and International Law’ has been released

A new issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 13, no. 3, 2011) is now available. It is the result of a seminar held on 31 August 2010 at the University of Surrey, UK, on “Transboundary Aquifers and International Law: The Experience of the Guarani Aquifer System”.

Contents include:

  • Catherine Brölmann, Transboundary Aquifers as a Concern of the International Community
  • Attila Tanzi, Furthering International Water Law or Making a New Body of Law on Transboundary Aquifers? An Introduction
  • Kerstin Mechlem, Past, Present and Future of the International Law of Transboundary Aquifers
  • Raya Marina Stephan, The Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers: The Process at the UN ILC
  • Owen McIntyre, International Water R esources Law and the International Law Commission Draft Articles on Transboundary Aquifers: A Missed Opportunity for Cross-Fertilisation?
  • Francesco Sindico, The Guarani Aquifer System and the International Law of Transboundary Aquifers
  • Gabriel E. Eckstein, Buried Treasure or Buried Hope? The Status of Mexico-U.S. Transboundary Aquifers under International Law
  • Felix Zaharia, The Law of Transboundary Aquifers in Practice – the Mureş Alluvial Fan Aquifer System (Romania/Hungary)
  • Maria Gavouneli, A Human Right to Groundwater?