New Developments in
International Water Law
Wednesday, March 14,
2012 from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM (ET),
Mortara Building, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC 20057
Edith Brown Weiss
Francis Cabell Brown
Professor of International Law; Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Government
A.B., Stanford; J.D.,
Harvard; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; LL.D.(Hon.), Chicago-Kent;
LL.D. (Hon.), University of Heidelberg
Expertise:
Environmental and
Natural Resources Law
International and
Trade Law
Law and Other
Disciplines (Political Science)
five areas of
international water law
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demarcation / navigation
/ water allotment or use / pollution / eco-system
ground water v.
surface water
challenges
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how to be responsive ,
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inter-generational
perspective
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water-demand;
international water law only addresses supply
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water market;
marketing water across border
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incorporate human
rights into water law, e.g., resolution by UNGA and UN H.R. Council in 2010
four classic
principles in allocating water
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absolute sovereignty
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prior appropriation
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community interest
-
restrictive
sovereignty
UN H.R.C.’s comments on
art. 12 of ICESCR
common concern of
human kind - 1990
“to the maximum of
available resources” (?) of ICESCR art. 2 (?)
how to implement? E.g. by
using BAT (the concept of best available technology in Clean Air Act)