As the Tribunal in Rainbow Warrior pointed out, ‘in the international law field there is no distinction between contractual and tortious responsibility’.1 In his fifth report on State responsibility, Ago explained the absence of such a distinction in ‘the legal order of the international community’ by the non-existence of an ‘instrument like legislation, which is at the same time voluntary and authoritative’.2 Twenty-five years later, Ago’s view appears to have been endorsed by the ILC in the final text of the Articles on State Responsibility. In the report of the...
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