The Agreement on the Guarani Aquifer enters into force: what changes now?
The following essay is by Dr. Pilar Carolina Villar, Professor at Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). She can be reached at pcvillar [at] gmail.com. The Agreement on the Guarani Aquifer...
View ArticleThe principle of prior notification – An instrument of implementing...
The following essay by Dr. Susanne Schmeier, Associate Professor at IHE Delft, summarizes her recent article entitled “Prior notification of planned measures: A response to the no-harm dilemma?“, which...
View ArticleThe Ilisu Dam and its Impact on the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq:...
The fate of the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq provides us with a case study on the functional deficits of the existing body of international water law in managing conflict over transboundary...
View ArticleNew Book on “International Law and Transboundary Aquifers” by Francesco Sindico
The book “International Law and Transboundary Aquifers” takes on this multiple challenge by framing the narrative around a practical scenario. One where two countries acknowledge the existence of a...
View ArticleSink or Swim: Alternatives for Unlocking the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...
For the past five years, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt have negotiated the filling and annual operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (“GERD”), but failed to strike a deal acceptable to them all....
View ArticleAJIL Unbound Symposium on Interstate Disputes Over Water Rights
Disagreements over the management and allocation of transboundary freshwater resources have become increasingly prominent in international relations ... AJIL Unbound by Symposium, a publication of the...
View ArticleGoverning Shared Watercourses Under Climatic Uncertainty: The Case of the...
This article examines treaty flexibility and climate change adaptation in the context of the Nile Basin, with special emphasis on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The post Governing Shared...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Issues Decision in First Ever Dispute Over Interstate...
This essay is written by Gabriel Eckstein, Professor of Law at Texas A&M University, director of the TAMU Law Program in Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resources Systems, and director of the...
View ArticleThe Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin: old disputes in a new century
The Rio Grande River, known in Mexico as the Río Bravo, is one of the principal rivers in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Originating in Colorado in the U.S., the Rio Grande flows...
View ArticlePreliminary Reflections on the ICJ Decision in the Dispute between Chile and...
The following essay, authored by Francesco Sindico, Laura Movilla Pateiro, and Gabriel Eckstein, was first published on EJIL: Talk!, the Blog of the European Journal of International Law. It is...
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