discrete issues
or problems for adjudicatory methods of dispute settlement that exist in
the international system".[3] Building on that, she makes a strong case for
"specialized forums staffed with the requisite expertise".[4]
The final three chapters explore much broader issues. The central
question Malcolm Evans raises in Chapter 11 is "whether there is a danger
in individual responsibility under international law being used - de facto,
behind which the responsibility of state can shelter".[5] His uneasiness
with what he sees as the tendency to transfer responsibility from the state
to the individual is also because, he
would argue, it calls into question the basic understanding of what
international law is about. He concludes that "where individual and state
responsibility co-exist ... the efficacy of international law as a body of
law is not enhanced - and indeed may be undermined, if the individual
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