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Dellapenna, Joseph W. --- "The work of international legal expert bodies" [2019] ELECD 63; in McCaffrey, C. Stephen; Leb, Christina; Denoon, T. Riley (eds), "Research Handbook on International Water Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 26

Book Title: Research Handbook on International Water Law

Editor(s): McCaffrey, C. Stephen; Leb, Christina; Denoon, T. Riley

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781785368073

Section: Chapter 2

Section Title: The work of international legal expert bodies

Author(s): Dellapenna, Joseph W.

Number of pages: 18

Abstract/Description:

In the past century and a half, States have developed transnational water management. Recognizing from this practice that there is a body of customary law for internationally shared waters, international legal expects, individually or collectively (through expert bodies), led the development of international water law, providing much of the soft law applied by States. Over the past century and a-half, responding to increasing and intensifying disputes over internationally shared waters, the International Law Association (“ILA”), and similar bodies have contributed significantly to the growth of international law for internationally shared waters and later for waters more generally. The ILA’s Helsinki Rules (1966) quickly became the key codification of customary international law until the completion of the UN Watercourses Convention (1997). The ILA’s Berlin Rules on Water Resources (2004) is the most recent and most far-reaching such codification. With all this, the problems of transboundary aquifers have hardly begun to be faced.