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 book explores the nexus between natural resources ownership and the right to development in Africa. The right to sovereignty over natural resources and the

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