Review: International Law and Organization: International Law in Historical Perspective
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207402900417 |
| Date | 01 December 1974 |
| Published date | 01 December 1974 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
662
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
present-day
agreements,
and
the
adequacy
of
current
enforcement
pro-
cedures.
The
International
Law
of
Pollution
accomplishes
the
second
task
in
the
problem-solving
process,
the
gathering
of
information,
and
is
most
valuable
in
this
respect.
It
must
be
remembered,
however,
that
there
is
a
further
task
-
the
development
of
policy
directions
based
on
the
analysis of
this
information
-
and
it
is
to
be
hoped
that
inter-
national
lawyers
and
political
scientists
will
not
shrink
from
it.
Patrick Kyba/University
of
Guelph
INTERNATIONAL
LAW IN
HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE
vi:
Juridical
Facts
as
Sources
of
International
Rights
and
Obligations
J.H.W.
Verzijl
Leiden:
A.W.
Sijthoff,
1973,
x
861pp,
Dfl.
120,-
The
sixth
volume
of
Verzijl's majestic
analysis,
International
Law
in
Historical.
Perspective,
is
devoted to
juridical
facts
as
sources
of
inter-
national
rights and
obligations,
that
is
to
say
'the various
legally
relevant
facts
from
which inter-state
rights
and
obligations
originate.
Such
"juridical
facts"
are of
the
most
diverse
nature,
ranging
from
the
simple
coexistence
of
States
in
a
legal
order
and
natural
events
to,
on the
one
hand,
State
acts
specifically
intended to
produce
such
rights
and
obligations
and,
on
the
other,
delicts
for
which
States
may
become
internationally
liable
vis-A-vis
their
fellow
States'
(p
1).
Almost
the
entire
work
is
devoted
to
the
creation
of
such
rights
and
obligations,
with
the
final
ten
pages
devoted
to
their
'vicissitudes,'
by
which
Professor
Verzijl
means
changes
in
the
personality
of
the
parties
by
way
of
subrogation
or
succession -succession
will
be
the
subject
dealt
with
in
the
next
volume
of
the
series;
changes
in
the
content
of
the
obligation
by
way
of
novation,
as
when,
for
example,
'an
obliga-
tion to
make
restitution
of
an
object
or
a
territory
in
kind
is
replaced
by
an
obligation
to
pay
pecuniary compensation'
(p
777);
set-off,
tem-
porary
suspension,
and
extinction
-
he
points
out
that
by
and
large
the
methods
of
termination
of all
rights
and
obligations
are
similar
to
those
affecting
treaties
(see
Chap
v,
s
5,
pp
328-92),
even
though
some
rights
flowing
from
a
treaty
might
persist
even
after
that
treaty
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