In spite of the imprecision characterizing its current usage and the absence of any precise definition in international law,1 the term ‘satisfaction’ nevertheless designates certain particular forms of responses to wrongfulness, albeit having ill-defined functions. Its role in the law of responsibility for internationally wrongful acts appears at first glance to relate more to the ‘punitive’ or ‘penal’ dimension of that law than to its compensatory or ‘civil’ aspect, that distinction of course not having been institutionalized to the same extent as in municipal...
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