Stephen C. McCaffrey

Distinguished Professor and Scholar and Professor of Law
Counselor, Institute for Sustainable Development
B.A., University of Colorado
J.D., University of California, Berkeley
Dr. iur., University of Cologne, Germany

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Professor McCaffrey is one of the world’s foremost authorities on international water law. He was a member of the United Nations International Law Commission from 1982-91 and chaired that prestigious organization’s 1987-88 session, only the third American to do so. He served as special rapporteur for the commission’s draft articles on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses, which formed the basis of the 1997 U.N. Convention on the subject. Professor McCaffrey was Counselor on International Law in the State Department in 1984-85 and represents countries in disputes before the International Court of Justice and other fora. He also advises the Palestinians in connection with the Permanent Status talks with Israel and is Legal Adviser to the Nile River Basin Negotiation Committee. Professor McCaffey has taught at McGeorge since 1977. He has published numerous law review articles and has authored or co-authored several books, including the casebook, International Environmental Law, the treatise, The Law of International Watercourses, and Understanding International Law.

Recent Publications: Stephen C. McCaffrey, The Law of International Watercourses: Non-Navigational Uses, Oxford Press (2001), International Environmental Law and Policy (Aspen 1998) (with Brown Weiss, Lutz, Magraw and Szasz)

Curriculum Vitae:

Employment:

Distinguished Professor and Scholar, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
(2000 - present); Professor of Law, 1977-2000

Counselor on International Law, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
(1984-1985)

Professor of Law, Southwestern University School of Law (1974-1977)

Professional Activities:

Member, United Nations International Law Commission (ILC) (1982-1991); Chair of the ILC for its Thirty-Ninth Session, 1987-1988; Special Rapporteur for the Commission's draft articles on "The Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses" (1985-1991), adopted by the ILC on first reading in 1991, which formed the basis for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses of 21 May 1997

Counselor on International Law, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State (1984-1985)

Counsel to Slovakia in the case concerning the Gab …íkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia) before the International Court of Justice (1993 - present)

Counsel to Nicaragua in the case concerning the Dispute Regarding Navigational and Related Rights ( Costa Rica v.Nicaragua) before the International Court of Justice (2005 - present)

Counsel to India, Proceedings before Neutral Expert under the Indus Waters Treaty 1960,

Difference regarding the Baglihar Hydro-electric Plant (2005-2006)

Faculty Chair (elected by faculty), University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 2006-2007

Special Legal Adviser, Secretariat, North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (1995 - present)

Legal Adviser on the Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework, Negotiating Committee of the Nile River Basin States (2003 -2006), and Nile River Basin Council of Ministers (2006-2007)

Legal and Institutional Consultant, Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework project, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) (September 1998 - December 2003)

Legal Counsel, Nile Basin Initiative (2002-2003)

Lead External Adviser on Water Law, British Department for International Development & Adam Smith Institute project to assist the Palestinian Authority Negotiations Affairs Department (August, 1999 - present)

Member, Committee on the Scientific Bases of Colorado River Basin Water Management, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 2006-2007 (produced report, Colorado River Basin Water Management: Evaluating and Adjusting to Hydroclimatic Variability, National Academies Press, 2007)

Member, Panel of Arbitrators Experienced in Environmental Law, established under the Optional Rules for Arbitration of Disputes Relating to Natural Resources and/or the Environment, Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague (2001 - )

Member, Core Team, World Bank and Government of Netherlands International Waters Training Program (2001 - )

Consultant, World Bank meetings on the Water Charter for the Senegal River, with representatives of Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and the Senegal River Basin Organization (OMVS) (Washington, April-May, 2002)

Team Leader, British Department for International Development & Adam Smith Institute program of training and capacity building for the Government of Kyrgyzstan in the fields of international law and the law of international watercourses (May-October, 2002)

Consultant, project concerning Sustainable Development of the Lake Victoria Basin, Swedish International Development Agency (sida) and East African Community (1999-2000 )

Consultant to (past or present): UNDP; Adam Smith Institute; Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State; World Conservation Union (IUCN); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); World Bank; Water and Energy Commission of Nepal, 1998 (as member of Panel appointed by the Commission); Ministry of External Affairs, India

Rapporteur, Committee on Transnational Enforcement of Environmental Law, International Law Association (1997-2002)

Visiting Professor of Law, University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall), Spring Semester, 2003

Visiting Professor, Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland , May-June 1998 (course: International Environmental Law)

Visiting Professor, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Faculty of Law, January- February 1994 (taught International Environmental Law [Internationales Umweltschutzrecht] in German)

Member, United States Delegation, Working Group of the Whole for the Elaboration of a Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 7-25 October 1996

ILC Liaison, ABA Section of International Law and Practice

Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht (German Association of International Law)

Member, Experts Group of Environmental Law, World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission)

Member, Board of Advisers, International Institute for Environmental Studies and Disaster Management, People's Republic of Bangladesh (1988-89)

Past Member, Executive Council, American Society of International Law (ASIL) (completed term 1988)

Chair, ASIL Committee on the Hudson Medal (1993-94; 1997-98)

Member, ASIL Nominating Committee (1990-91); Committee on the Hudson Medal (1994-95); Organizing Committee for 1998 Annual Meeting

Member, ASIL Panel on State Responsibility; ASIL Study Group on International Environmental Law

Member, Steering Committee of Experts, Forum on International Law of the Environment, Group of Seven Industrialized Countries, Siena, Italy, April 1990, and Chair of Working Group I of the Forum

Member, Group of Senior Legal Experts on the Revision of the Montevideo Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Member, Commission on Environmental Law, International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)

Member and Rapporteur, Working Group on a Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law & International Council of Environmental Law; Member, Steering Committee of Working Group

Co-Chair, Committee on International Environmental Law, ABA Section of International Law (1992-93)

Chair, Sub-Group on the Work of the International Law Commission Relating to State

Responsibility, Panel on State Responsibility, American Society of International Law

Member, Advisory Board, LL.M. Program in International Legal Studies, Golden Gate University School of Law

Listed in: Who's Who in Service to the Earth; Who's Who Environmental Registry

Member, Advisory Board, Austrian Journal of Public and International Law (until 1996); Austrian Review of International and European Law (1996 - )

Member, Board of Advisors, Environmental Policy and Law

Member, Scientific Committee, International Association for Water Law

Member, International Advisory Board, The Transnational Lawyer

Member, Board of Directors, Berkeley Journal of International Law (1996 - )

Member, Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law (1993-1998)

Member, S.J.D. Advisory Committee, Golden Gate University School of Law (1996- )

Former Chair, Committee on International Environmental Law, American Branch, International Law Association

Past Member, Executive Committee, International Law Section, California State Bar (completed term 1991)

Former Associate Editor, California International Law Section Newsletter

Past Member, Council, Section of International Law and Practice, American Bar Association ( ABA) (completed term 1987)

Former Chair, International Courts Committee, ABA Section of International Law and Practice

Former Chair, Committee on Private International Law, ABA Section of International Law and Practice (1977-1981)

Education:

B.A., 1967, University of Colorado

J.D., 1971, University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall)
(Founding Member of Board of Editors, Ecology Law Quarterly)

Dr. iur., 1974 (magna cum laude), University of Cologne, Germany

Fellowships and Awards:

Order of the Dual White Cross, Republic of Slovakia (highest distinction of Slovakia for foreign nationals), presented October 9, 2007

Holder of the 2007 Merv Leitch, Q.C. Memorial Visiting Chair, University of Calgary Faculty of Law and University of Alberta Faculty of Law; 2007 Merv Leitch, Q.C. Memorial Lecture, A International Water Law and Management for the 21 st Century @

Certificate of Merit for High Technical Craftsmanship, American Society of International Law, 2002 (for The Law of International Watercourses, Non-Navigational Uses, Oxford University Press 2001)

Speaker, McGeorge Distinguished Speakers Series, 2000-2001, November 2, 2000 ( A Negotiating Water: Lessons from Palestine and the Nile @ )

Myres S. McDougal Lecturer, University of Denver College of Law, February 27, 1999 ( A Water, Water Everywhere, But Too Few Drops to Drink: The Coming Fresh Water Crisis & International Environmental Law @ )

Distinguished Faculty Award, University of the Pacific, 1996

Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, January, 1983 - July, 1984 (worked at the Environmental Law Centre of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Bonn, Germany, and at the University of Cologne)

Research Fellow, Max Planck Association, January-December, 1972 (worked at Max Planck Institute for Private International and Comparative Law, Hamburg, Germany)

Publications:

Books and Monographs

The Law of International Watercourses, Non-Navigational Uses , Oxford University Press 2001

International Environmental Law and Policy , with Edith Brown Weiss, Daniel B. Magraw, Paul Szasz & Robert Lutz, Aspen, 1998

Environmental Pollution and Individual Rights: An International Symposium (co-edited with Robert Lutz), Kluwer, 1978

Private Remedies for Transfrontier Environmental Disturbances , IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 8, International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Morges, Switzerland, 1975

Pollution Suits between Citizens of the Republic of Mexico and the United States: A Study in Private International Law (Ansprüche aus Immissionen über die Grenze zwischen Mexico und den USA im internationalen Privatrecht), 14 Berkeley-Kölner Rechtsstudien (Berkeley-Cologne Legal Studies), C.F. Müller, 1976 (doctoral dissertation)

Seven reports to the U.N. International Law Commission on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, 1985-1991

Other Publications

Numerous articles, chapters and other works. List available on request.

Foreign Languages:

German (speaking, reading and some writing ability); French (reading and some speaking ability); and Spanish (basic working knowledge)

Memberships (partial list):
American Society of International Law
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht (German Association of International Law)
International Council of Environmental Law
International Law Association
California State Bar Association (Inactive)
Section of International Law and Practice, American Bar Association
Sierra Club

Personal
Born January 21, 1945
Married, four children

Miscellaneous
Student Body President, Berkeley High School, 1962-63
President, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1965-66
Platoon Honor Man, Boot Camp, U.S. Marines, MCRD, San Diego, CA, 1968
U.S. Marine Reserve; U.S. Naval Reserve (honorably discharged as Lieutenant)

Publications:

Books, Monographs and Reports

PRIVATE REMEDIES FOR TRANSFRONTIER ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES, IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 8, International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Morges, Switzerland (1975).

POLLUTION SUITS BETWEEN CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC OF MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES: A STUDY IN PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW (ANSPRÜCHE AUS IMMISSIONEN ÜBER DIE GRENZE ZWISCHEN MEXICO UND DEN USA IM INTERNATIONALEN PRIVATRECHT), published as Volume 14 BERKELEY-KÖLNER RECHTSSTUDIEN (BERKELEY-COLOGNE LEGAL STUDIES), (C.F. Müller, Karlsruhe, 1976) (doctoral dissertation, University of Cologne, Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany (1974)).

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (co-edited with Robert Lutz) Kluwer: Deventer, Holland, 1978.

PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE LAW OF THE NON-NAVIGATIONAL USES OF INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES, U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/393 (1985), 1985 Y.B. Int'l L. Comm'n (vol. 2, pt. 1), p. 87 (1987).

SECOND REPORT ON THE LAW OF THE NON-NAVIGATIONAL USES OF INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES, U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/399 and Adds. 1 and 2 (1986), 1986 Y.B. Int'l L. Comm'n (vol. 2, pt. 1), p. 87 (1988).

THIRD REPORT ON THE LAW OF THE NON-NAVIGATIONAL USES OF INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES, U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/406 and Adds. 1 and 2 (1987), 1987 Y.B. Int'l L. Comm'n (vol. 2, pt. 1), p. 15 (1989).

FOURTH REPORT ON THE LAW OF THE NON-NAVIGATIONAL USES OF INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES, U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/412 and Adds 1 and 2 (1988), 1988 Y.B. Int'l L. Comm'n (vol. 2, pt. 1), p. 205 (1992).

FIFTH REPORT ON THE LAW OF THE NON-NAVIGATIONAL USES OF INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES, U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/421 and Adds. 1 and 2 (1989), 1989 Y.B. Int'l L. Comm'n (vol. 2, pt. 1), p. 91 (1992).

SIXTH REPORT ON THE LAW OF THE NON-NAVIGATIONAL USES OF INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES, U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/427 and Corr. 1 and Add.1 (1990), 1990 Y.B. Int'l L. Comm'n (vol. 2, pt. 1), p. 41 (1993).

SEVENTH REPORT ON THE LAW OF THE NON-NAVIGATIONAL USES OF INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES, U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/436 and Corrs. 1-3 (1991).

International Environmental Law and Policy, with E. Brown Weiss, D. Magraw, P. Szasz & R. Lutz ( Aspen, 1998)

The Law of International Watercourses: Non-Navigational Uses (Oxford University Press, 2001) (awarded Certificate of Merit for High Technical Craftsmanship, 2002, by the American Society of International Law)

Guidebook for Policy and Legislative Development on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Freshwater Resources, with Gregory S. Weber (United Nations Environment Programme, 2004)

Negotiator’s Handbook on International Freshwater Agreements (United Nations Environment Programme, 2005)

Understanding International Law (Matthew Bender/LexisNexis Publishing, forthcoming 2006)

Understanding International Law (LexisNexis Publishing, 2006)

Colorado River Basin Water Management: Evaluating and Adjusting to Hydroclimatic Variability , Committee on the Scientific Bases of Colorado River Basin Water Management, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies (The National Academies Press, 2007) (with the other members of the Committee on the Scientific Bases of Colorado River Basin Water Management)

Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation and Cooperation , with Ariel Dinar (economist, The World Bank and Johns Hopkins University), Shlomi Dinar (political scientist, Florida International University) & Daene McKinney (engineer, University of Texas‑Austin) (World Scientific Publishing, 2007)

Articles and Papers

Standing on the Side of the Environment: A Statutory Prescription for Citizen Participation, 1 ECOLOGY L.Q. 561 (1971) (co-authored with Robert E. Lutz, II).

Trans-Boundary Pollution Injuries: Jurisdictional Considerations in Private Litigation Between Canada and the United States, 3 CAL. WEST. INT'L L.J. 191 (1973) (cited and quoted from in Prefatory Note to Uniform Transboundary Pollution Reciprocal Access Act (1982)).

The Use of Law in Environmental Conservation: A Survey of Legal Responses to Selected Problems, in ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMMES, U.N. Doc. ST/ESA/16, at 109 (1974) (co-authored with Françoise Berhenne-Guilmin).

The OECD Principles Concerning Transfrontier Pollution: A Commentary, 1 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND LAW 2 (Lausanne, Switzerland 1975).

Assessment of Environmental Impact - Some Reflections on the American Experience, in BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND COMPARATIVE LAW, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE ASPECTS, A SYMPOSIUM (J. Nowak, ed. 1976).

Private Remedies for Transfrontier Pollution Injuries, in BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE ASPECTS, A SYMPOSIUM (J. Nowak, ed. 1976).

Pollution of Shared Natural Resources: Legal and Trade Implications in [1977] PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW p. 56 (1977).

The Swiss Draft Conflicts Law, 28 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW pp. 235-285 (1980)

Private Remedies for Transfrontier Pollution Damage in Canada and the United States: A Comparative Survey, 19 UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO L. REV. 35 (1981)

The 34th Session of the International Law Commission, 77 AM. J. INT'L L. 323 (1983)

International Environmental Law and the Work of the International Law Commission, in [1983] PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW p. 414 (1983).

The Work of the International Law Commission Relating to the Environment, 11 ECOLOGY L. Q. 189 (1983).

The 35th Session of the International Law Commission, 78 AM. J. INT'L L. 457 (1984).

Judicial Control of Administrative Authorities: A New Development in Eastern Europe, 18 INT'L LAW. 645 (1984) (with Marek Wiersbowski) (reprinted in 8 K. Redden, MODERN LEGAL SYSTEMS CYCLOPEDIA 157 (1985)).

Current Work of the International Law Commission, 13(2) INT'L L. NEWS 9 (1984).

Codification and Progressive Development: Law and the World Environment, 7 HARV. INT'L REV. 8 (1984).

The 36th Session of the International Law Commission, 79 AM. J. INT'L L. 755 (1985).

The Contributions of the International Law Commission to International Environmental Law: An Update, 15 ENV'L L. 667 (1985).

The 37th Session of the International Law Commission, 80 AM. J. INT'L L. 185 (1986).

The 38th Session of the International Law Commission, 81 AM. J. INT'L L. 668 (1987).

Introductory Note, International Law Commission Draft Articles on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property, 26 I.L.M. 625 (1987).

Accidents Do Happen: Hazardous Technology and International Tort Litigation, 1 TRANSNAT'L LAW. 41 (1988) (excerpted in T. Schoenbaum & R. Rosenberg, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY LAW 1257 (1991)).

The 39th Session of the International Law Commission, 82 AM. J. INT'L L. 144 (1988).

Environment-Related Work of the International Law Commission at its 1988 Session, 18 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY & LAW, December, 1988.

The 40th Session of the International Law Commission, 83 AM. J. INT'L L. 153 (1989).

Recent Work of the International Law Commission on the Draft Code, paper presented at panel on the Draft Code of Offenses Against the Peace and Security of Mankind, in PROCEEDINGS, EIGHTIETH ANNUAL MEETING, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 9-12 April, 1986, p. 120 (1988).

The Relevance of the ILC's Work on International Watercourses, paper presented at panel on Water Resources in the Middle East: Impact on Economics and Politics, in PROCEEDINGS, EIGHTIETH ANNUAL MEETING, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 9-12 April, 1986, p. 261 (1988).

The Work of the International Law Commission Relating to Transfrontier Environmental Harm, 20 N.Y.U. J. INT'L L. & POL. 715 (1988) (excerpted in T. Schoenbaum & R. Rosenberg, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY LAW 1249 (1991)).

The Law of International Watercourses: Some Recent Developments and Unanswered Questions, 17 DENVER J. INT'L L. & POL'Y 505 (1989).

The Forty-First Session of the International Law Commission, 83 AM. J. INT'L L. 937 (1989).

Environment-Related Work of the International Law Commission at its 1988 Session, 19 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY & LAW, December, 1989.

Remarks on panel, International Responsibility for Manmade Disasters, in PROCEEDINGS, 81st ANNUAL MEETING, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 8-11 April, 1987, p. 325 (1990).

The Forty-Second Session of the International Law Commission, 84 AM. J. INT'L L. 930 (1990).

"International Lawmaking and Its Relevance," paper presented at panel on Environment, Economic Development and Human Rights: A Triangular Relationship?, in PROCEEDINGS, 82nd ANNUAL MEETING, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 20-23 April, 1988, p.55 (1990).

The International Law Commission: Its Documents and Their Relevance to International Legal Practice, 1 (No. 2) The California International Practitioner 20 (1989-90).

The 1990 Session of the International Law Commission, 3 (No. 3) California International Law Section Newsletter 1 (1990).

International Law and the Gulf War, 4 (No. 1) California International Law Section Newsletter 1 (1990).

Paul Reuter (1911-1990), 85 AM. J. INT'L L. 150 (1991)

Environment-Related Work of the International Law Commission at its 1988 Session, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY & LAW, December, 1990.

International Organizations and the Holistic Approach to Water Problems, 31 NAT. RES. J. 139 (1991).

The Law of International Watercourses: Ecocide or Ecomanagement?, 59 REVISTA JURIDICA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO 1003 (1990).

The International Law Commission and its Efforts to Codify the International Law of Waterways, in [1990] SWISS YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, vol. XLVII, p. 32 (1991).

The Restatement's Treatment of Sources and Evidence of International Law, 25 INT'L LAW. 311 (1991). Republished in COMMENTARIES ON THE RESTATEMENT (THIRD) OF THE FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW OF THE UNITED STATES (1992) at p. 1.

The Law of International Watercourses: Theoretical and Practical Issues, Remarks as Chair of Seminar, "International Watercourses," in PROCEEDINGS, 84th ANNUAL MEETING, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 28-31 March, 1990, p. 228 (1991).

International Law: The Year in Review, remarks on panel, in PROCEEDINGS, 84th ANNUAL MEETING, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 28-31 March, 1990, p. 142 (1991).

Fresh Water, entry in [1990] YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, vol. 1, p. 105 (1991).

International Law Commission, entry in [1990] YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, vol. 1, p. 298 (1991).

The Forty-third Session of the International Law Commission, 85 AM. J. INT'L L. 703 (1991).

Introductory Note, United Nations: International Law Commission Report on the Draft Articles Adopted at its Forty-Third Session, 30 I.L.M. 1554 (1991).

A Prophecy or an Unduly Pessimistic Scenario?, Boalt Hall TRANSCRIPT, vol 24, No. 2, Fall, 1991, p. 25 (part of a section entitled "Global Prioritites for the 21st Century; Nine Alumni Share Their Views").

The Law of International Watercourses: The International Law Commission Completes Its Draft Articles, 22 Environmental Policy and Law 66 (1992).

Fresh Water, entry in [1991] 2 YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, vol. 2, p. 117 (1992).

International Law Commission, entry in [1991] 2 YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, vol. 2, p. 357 (1992).

Water, Human Rights and Sustainable Development, in HUMAN RIGHTS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT 99 (A. Cancado Trindade ed. 1992) (Proceedings of the First Inter-American Seminar on Human Rights and the Environment, 1992).

A Human Right to Water: Domestic and International Implications, 5 GEORGETWN. INT'L ENVTL. L. REV. 1 (1992).

Background and Overview of the International Law Commission's Study of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, 3 COLO. J. INT'L ENVTL. L. & POL'Y 17 (1992).

The Evolution of the Law of International Watercourses, 45 AUSTRIAN J. PUB. & INT'L L. 87-111 (1993).

Fresh Water, entry in [1992] 3 YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, p. 233 (1993).

International Law Commission, entry in [1992] 3 YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, p. 529 (1993).

The Work of the International Law Commission on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & NEDERLANDSE VERENIGING VOOR INTERNATIONAAL RECHT, PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND JOINT CONFERENCE HELD IN THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS, JULY 22-24, 1993, p. 378 (1994).

Fresh Water, entry in [1993] 4 YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, p. 148 (1994).

International Law Commission, entry in [1993] 4 YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, p. 524 (1994).

The International Law Commission Adopts Draft Articles on International Watercourses, 89 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 395 (1995). Translated into Chinese in the Journal of Postgraduate Studies of Zhongshan University, 1996.

Fresh Water, entry in [1994] 5 YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, p. 171 (1995).

International Law Commission, entry in [1994] 5 YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (1995)

The International Law Commission's Draft Articles on International Watercourses: An Overview and Commentary, with Robert Rosenstock, 4 Rev. Eur. Comm. & Int'l Envtl. L. 89 (1996)

Developments in Public International Law, 30 Int'l Law. 287 (1996)

An Assessment of the Work of the International Law Commission, 36 Nat. Res. J. 297 (1996)

The Harmon Doctrine One Hundred Years Later: Buried, Not Praised, 36 Nat. Res. J. 965 (1996)

Is Codification in Decline?, 20 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L.Rev. 639 (Festschrift for Stefan A. Riesenfeld) (1997)

The United Nations Starts Work on a Watercourses Convention, 91 Am. J. Int'l L. 374 (1997) (with John R. Crook)

The Coming Fresh Water Crisis: International Legal and Institutional Responses, 21 Vermont L.Rev. 803 (1997)

The International Law Commission, entry in [1996] 6 YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 395 (1998)

The 1997 United Nations Convention on International Watercourses, 92 Am. J. Int'l L. 97 (1998) (with Mpazi Sinjela)

An Overview of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, 20 J. Land, Resources, & Envtl. L.57 (2000)

International Law Commission, entry in [1999] 10 Y.B. Int’l Envtl. L. 688 (2000)

International Water Law for the 21 st Century: The Contribution of the U.N. Convention, 118 Water Resources Update 11 (Jan. 2001)

Biotechnology: Some Issues of General International Law, 14 Transnat'l Law. 91 (2001)

The contribution of the UN Convention on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses, 1 Int'l J. Global Envtl. Issues 250 (2001) (special issue on International Water Law)

The Need for Flexibility in Freshwater Treaty Regimes, 27 Natural Resources Forum 156 (2003)

The Rule of Law Among Countries, 18 Transnat’l Law. 175 (2004)

The Fifty-Sixth Session of the International Law Commission, 35 Envtl. Pol’y & L. 109 (2005)

The Shrinking Dead Sea and the Red‑Dead Canal: A Sisyphean Tale? , 19 Pac. McGeorge Global Bus. & Dev. L.J. 259 (2006)

The Jordan River Basin: 1. Clarification of the Allocations in the Johnston Plan , 32 Water Int’l 16 (2007) (with David J.H. Phillips, Shaddad Attili, & John S. Murray) Volume 32, Number 1, March 2007. They are described in the table of contents as "The Jordan River Basin: A Two Part Special Series, David JH Phillips, Shaddad Attili, Stephen McCaffrey, John Murray".The titles are: The Jordan River Basin: 1. Clarification of the Allocations in the Johnston Plan, p. 16; and The Jordan River Basin: 2. Potential Future Allocations to the Co‑ riparians, p. 39.

The Jordan River Basin: 2. Potential Future Allocations to the Co‑Riparians, 32 Water Int’l 39 (2007) (with David J.H. Phillips, Shaddad Attili, & John S. Murray)

Federal Court: The "Roadless Rule" Reinstated , 37 Envtl. Pol'y & L. 54 (2007) (with Anna E.J. Frostic)

Translation

Kegel, Obligation and Disposition: Should Dispositions be Abstrakt or Kausal? (Verpflichting und Verfügung: Solen Verfüguengen abstrakt order kausal sein?), in 81 BEITRÄGE ZUM DEUTSCHEN UND ISRAELISCHEN PRIVATRECHT 103 (1977).

Chapters

Conflict of Laws, in THE U.S. LEGAL SYSTEM, A PRACTICE HANDBOOK, ch. VI at p. 119 (D. Campbell & W. Hepperle eds. 1983).

Crimes Against the Environment, in 1 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW 541 (M.C. Bassiouni, ed. 1986).

Expediting the Provision of Compensation to Accident Victims, in TRANSFERRING HAZARDOUS TECHNOLOGIES AND SUBSTANCES: THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL CHALLENGE (G. Handl and R. Lutz eds. (1989).

Transboundary Environmental Relations between Mexico and the United States, in CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS: EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, p. 192 (S. Ercmann, ed. 1987).

Lex Lata or the Continuum of State Responsibility, and The Objectives of a New Regime and the Means for Accomplishment, in INTERNATIONAL CRIMES OF STATE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ILC'S DRAFT ARTICLE 19 ON STATE RESPONSIBILITY, pp. 242 and 249 (J. Weiler, A. Cassese & M. Spinedi eds. 1989).

International Liability and International Watercourses: The Work of the International Law Commission Relating to International Pollution, in INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLLUTION 90-119 (D. Magraw ed. 1991).

Water, Politics, and International Law, in WATER IN CRISIS: A GUIDE TO THE WORLD'S FRESH WATER RESOURCES, p. 92 (Peter H. Gleick, ed., Oxford University Press, 1993).

The Management of Water Resources, in THE ENVIRONMENT AFTER RIO: Law and Economics, p. 149 (L. Campiglio, et al., eds., 1994).

Article 5: Responsibility of States, in COMMENTARIES ON THE INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION'S 1991 DRAFT CODE OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PEACE AND SECURITY OF MANKIND 129 (1993).

The Law of International Watercourses: Present Problems, Future Trends, in FESTSCHRIFT FOR WOLFGANG BURHENNE, p. 113 (1994).

International Cooperative Mechanisms Related to Transboundary Watercourses, in United Nations, FRESHWATER CONSULTATIVE FORUM, REPORT OF THE MEETING, p. 59 (1994).

Liability for Transfrontier Environmental Harm: The Relationship between Public and Private International Law, in INTERNATIONALES UMWELTHAFTUNGSRECHT I (International Environmental Liability Law I), pp. 81-104 (1995).

Transboundary Water Resources, in Transboundary Water Resources, Report of the Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Strategic Issues concerning Transboundary Water Resources, New York, 14 May 1996, p. 7, U.N. Doc. WA/SEM.97/1 (1997).

Water Scarcity: Institutional and Legal Responses, in The Scarcity of Water: Emerging Legal and Policy Responses, Edward H.P. Brans, Esther J. de Haan, André Nollkaemper & Jan Rinzema eds., p. 43 (1997).

Middle East Water Problems: The Jordan River, in The Scarcity of Water: Emerging Legal and Policy Responses, Edward H.P. Brans, Esther J. de Haan, André Nollkaemper & Jan Rinzema eds., p. 158 (1997).

The UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: Prospects and Pitfalls, in Salman M.A. Salman & Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, eds., International Watercourses: Enhancing Cooperation and Managing Conflict, Proceedings of a World Bank Seminar, World Bank Technical Paper No. 414, pp. 17-28 (1998). Reprinted in Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Water Systems, Aaron T. Wolf ed.

International Watercourses, in Hague Academy of International Law, A Handbook on International Organizations, p. 725 (R-J Dupuy, ed. 1998)

Crimes Against the Environment, in 1 International Criminal Law 983 (M.C. Bassiouni, ed. 2d ed. 1999)

International Groundwater Law: Evolution and Context, in Salman M.A. Salman, ed., Groundwater, Legal and Policy Perspectives, Proceedings of a World Bank Seminar, World Bank Technical Paper No. 456, pp. 139-162 (1999)

International Watercourses in the Jurisprudence of the World Court, in 1 Liber Amicorum Judge Shigeru Oda, p. 1055 (Ando, McWhinney & Wolfrum eds. 2002)

Water Disputes Defined: Characteristics and Trends for Resolving Them, in Resolution of International Water Disputes, p. 49 (International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, ed. 2003)

The Danube River Basin, in The Multi-Governance of Water: Four Case-Studies 79 (Matthias Finger et al., eds., SUNY Press 2006)

The Human Right to Water, in Water and International Economic Law 93 (Edith Brown Weiss, Laurence Boisson DeChazournes, and Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, eds., Oxford University Press 2005)

Water Conflict and International Law , in Water: Values and Rights 659 (Imad Khatib et al., eds. 2005)

Of Paradoxes, Precedents, and Progeny: The Trail SmelterArbitration 65 Years Later, in Transboundary Harm In International Law: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration, p. 34 (Rebecca M. Bratspies & Russell A. Miller, eds., 2006)

Sharing Water, Sharing Benefits: Working Towards Effective Transboundary Water Resources Management , A Graduate/Professional Skills‑Building Workbook, Compiled and Edited by Prof. Aaron T. Wolf (contributor) (forthcoming 2006)

General Introduction to International and Comparative Law , in Teacher’s Manuals accompanying books in the Global Issues series, e.g., in Franklin A. Gevurtz, Teacher’s Manual to accompany Global Issues in Corporate Law, p. 3 (Thomson West 2006)

Liability and compensation regimes related to environmental damage , and Freshwater resources, (both with Maria Christina Zucca), Chapters 5, at p. 51, and 18, at p. 253, respectively, in United Nations Environment Programme, Training Manual on International Environmental Law (UNEP 2006)

Some Developments in the Law of International Watercourses , Chapter 44, in Promoting Justice, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution through International Law, Liber Amicorum Lucius Caflisch, p. 781, Marcelo G. Kohen ed. (Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden 2007)

Book Reviews

INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT (Ruester & Simma, eds. 1975- ) 9 SOUTHWESTERN UNIV. LAW REV. 265 (1977).

THE GERMAN COMMERCIAL CODE, Translated with an Introduction by Simon L. Goren and Ian S. Forrester (1979), 14 INTERNATIONAL LAWYER 188 (1980).

POLLUTION, POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, by R. Michael M'Gonigle and Mark W. Zacher, 9 ECOLOGY L. Q. 413 (1981).

STATE RESPONSIBILITY AND THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT, by Brian D. Smith (1988), 83 AM. J. INT'L L. 420 (1989).

CHERNOBYL: LAW AND COMMUNICATION. TRANSBOUNDARY NUCLEAR AIR POLLUTION ) THE LEGAL MATERIALS, (P. Sands, ed. 1988), 84 AM. J. INT'L L. 809 (1990).

STATE IMMUNITY: SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, by Christoph Schreuer, 39 AM. J. COMP. L. 213 (1991).

UNDERSTANDING EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, by T. Smith and P. Kromarek, 86 AM. J. INT'L L. 216 (1992).

OZONE DIPLOMACY: NEW DIRECTIONS IN SAFEGUARDING THE PLANET, by Richard E. Benedick, 87 AM. J. INT'L L. 486 (1993).

INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HARM, F. Francioni & T. Scovazzi eds. (1991), in [1992] 3 Y.B. INT'L ENVTL. L. 617 (1993).

THE GNAT IS OLDER THAN MAN: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN AGENDA, Christopher D. Stone, 88 AM. J. INT'L L. 567 (1994).

INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ENVIRONMENT, Patricia W. Birnie & Alan E. Boyle (1992), in [1993] 4 Y.B. INT'L ENVTL. L. 637 (1994).

Precautionary Legal Duties and Principles of Modern International Environmental Law, and Basic Documents of International Environmental Law, Harold Hohmann, 23 Ecology L.Q. 178 (1996).

MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF MAJOR RIVERS, Shady, El-Moattassem, Abdel-Hafiz & Biswas eds. (1996), 39 Environment 25 (1997).

International Law and Sustainable Development: Past Achievements and future challenges, Alan Boyle & David Freestone, eds. (1999), and Transnational Environmental Law: Lessons in Global Change, Peter H. Sand (1999), 94 AJIL 823 (2000)

Liability for Environmental Damage and the World Bank's Chad-Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project, 14 Transnat’l Law. 73 (2001)

Peaceful Uses of International Rivers: The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Dispute, Hilal Elver (2002), 97 AJIL 469 (2003)

Sharing Transboundary Resources: International Law and Optimal Resource Use, Eyal Benvenisti (2002), 17 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 1091 (2003)

Unpublished Teaching Materials

Materials on Private International Law (2d ed. 1981).

Materials on Law and Economics (1976).

Materials on Comparative Law (1979).

Cases and Materials on Conflict of Laws (3d ed. 1989).

Materials on International Litigation (1983) (with Jack J. Coe, Jr.).

Materials on International Litigation (with Sir Ian Sinclair) (1986).

Materials on Transnational Litigation (with Hans-Henrik Lidgard and Finn Martensen) (14 th ed. 2000).

Materials on International Environmental Law (8th ed. 1998).

Materials on Documentary Sales Transactions (5 th ed. 2000).

Materials on Foreign Investment and Development (1997).

Unpublished Papers

LEGAL REMEDIES FOR EXISTING OR THREATENED POLLUTION DAMAGE IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES, study prepared for the Environment Directorate, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, France, 1979.

The Work of the International Law Commission concerning International Watercourses, PROCEEDINGS OF SEMINAR ON INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES, CARACAS, Government of Venezuela.

Case Study: The Danube, report prepared for a governance study of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN - World Conservation Union), September, 2000.

Expert Opinion concerning the Distomo case, 24 October 2000 (with Christian Tomuschat), referred to in Greek Citizens v. Federal Republic of Germany (the “Distomo Massacre Case”), German Federal Supreme Court, 26 June 2003, 42 ILM 1030 (2003)