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The Law of International Watercourses: Non-navigational Uses. By Stephen C. McCaffrey. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxiii, 504. Index. $99; £65.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Joseph W. Dellapenna
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 97 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 233 - 236
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5 See generally Lonergan, Stephen C. & Brooks, David B., Watershed: The Role of Fresh Water in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 186–88 (1994)Google Scholar; Benvenisti, Eyal, Collective Action in the Utilization of Shared Freshwater: The Challenges of International Water Resources Law, 90 AJIL 384, 385–94 (1996)Google Scholar; Lowi, Miriam R., Rivers of Conflict, Rivers of Peace, 49 J. Int’l. Aff. 123, 139–40 (1995)Google Scholar.

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7 GA Res. 51/229, annex (May 21,1997), 36 ILM 700 (1997) [hereinafter Watercourses Convention]. The Convention is reprinted in The Law of International Watercourses at 446.

8 This theory of territorial sovereignty was first asserted in 1896 by U.S. Attorney General Judson Harmon in a dispute with Mexico concerning the Rio Grande.

9 Watercourses Convention, supra note 7, Art. 5.

10 See generally Dellapenna, Joseph W., Treaties as Instruments for Managing Internationally Shared Water Resources: Restricted Sovereignty vs. Community of Property, 26 Casew. Res. J. Int’l L. 27 (1994)Google Scholar.

11 See Teclaff, Ludwik A., Fiat or Custom: The Checkered Development of International Water Law, 31 Nat. Resources J. 45 (1991)Google Scholar.

12 See Gabcíkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hung./Slovk.), 1997 ICJ Rep. 7, paras. 78, 85, 141 (Sept. 25).

13 See Dellapenna, Joseph W., The Customary International Law of Transboundary Fresh Waters, 1 Int’l L. Global Envtl. IssueS 264, 279–81 (2001)Google Scholar.

14 Watercourses Convention, supra note 7, Art. 7.

15 McCaffrey, Stephen C., An Assessment of the Work of the International Law Commission, 36 Nat. Resources J. 297, 307–09 (1996)Google Scholar; McCaffrey, Stephen C., The International Law Commission Adopts Draft Articles on International Watercourses, 89 AJIL 395, 399 (1995)Google Scholar; McCaffrey, Stephen C., The International Law Commission audits Efforts to Codify the International Law of Waterways, 47 Annuaire Suisse de droit International 32, 48–52 (1991)Google Scholar.

16 Int’l L. Assoc, The Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers, 52 Ila, Conference Rep. 484 (1966). The Helsinki Rules, reprinted in The Law of International Watercourses at 465, are themselves the precursor of the International Law Commission’s work on international watercourses and thus of the Watercourses Convention itself. On the projected revision, see Dellapenna, supra note 13, at 287-89.