Post by Joanna Kulesza
Public International Law β’ State Responsibility & Due Diligence β’ Brill Monograph Author β’ Cambridge & LMU Postdoc
Honoured that the first report of the United Nations International Law Commission on due diligence in international law (A/CN.4/792), by Special Rapporteur Penelope Ridings, opens with a citation to my monograph Due Diligence in International Law (De Gruyter Brill, 2016) as the very first scholarly reference in the report. The book is cited over a dozen times across the full 63 pages. This research began over a decade ago here at the University of Lodz, where I first argued that due diligence operates as a unifying principle across international legal regimes, not merely a standard confined to environmental harm or the law of state responsibility. That argument, developed at @WydziaΕ Prawa i Administracji UΕ, is now at the centre of a new ILC topic with a mandate to identify the common elements of due diligence across all fields of international law. It is the kind of scholarly impact one hopes for but can never take for granted. Thank you to Dr Ridings for her rigorous and ambitious framing of the topic. The first report is available here: https://lnkd.in/dn577FCS
