Fifty years after the adoption of the Declaration on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1962

In modern international law, permanent sovereignty over natural resources has come to entail duties as well as rights. This study analyses the evolution of perm

This text explores how the public purpose doctrine reconciles the often conflicting, but equally binding, obligations that states have to engage in regulatory s

An assessment of the role of international law in preventing natural resources from fuelling armed conflict and improving their governance.