ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Self-Defense, Individual And Group Rights, Marine Pollution
Document Summary
All systems of law must deal with the issue of responsibility for breaches of the obligations contained in the system. The law of responsibility contains rules of secondary nature. Those that define the particular obligations that may generate responsibility if they are violated ( ex : immunity rules) Determine the consequences of violating the primary rules. Their purpose on states responsibility is to determine what the legal consequences are in cases of a breach of those substantive obligations. The core principles and elements of state responsibility. Art 1 ilc < every internationally wrongful act of state entails the international responsibility of that state. Art 2 : state responsibility consists of two elements. Must be a breach of an international obligation. Art 12 : an int obligations is breached by a state when an act of that state is not in conformity.
